Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six bro…

so the king wants simon 2 to climb the pillar??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, simon · What happens: want, climb · To what, where: simon, pillar

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 667 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six brothers show their trades to the king, and he calls them to his counsellors» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 wants	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	simon	simon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obj
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 simon	flat
7	to	to	PART	_	8 climb	mark
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pillar	det
10	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climb	obj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the king	simon					tree rules
2	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	simon not said here	the pillar					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pillar=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

nah, to shoot down the eagle with his bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shoot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shoot	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shoot	mark
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 shoot	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoot	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bow	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bow	nmod:poss
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot down	to-infinitive		the eagle				with eagle's bow	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with bow=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, to see and hear what's going on everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hear	cc
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 going	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hear	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	infinitive		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go on	present · progressive	everywhere property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, to build a bigger pillar for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 build	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 build	mark
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pillar	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pillar	amod
7	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		a bigger pillar				for him = he	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pillar=Product for he=Beneficiary

Option 4

nah, just to nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 nap	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 nap	mark
5	nap	nap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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