Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, thank · To what, where: pike, Ivan

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thank	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thank	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	14 reason	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reason	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 reason	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reason	det
13	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reason	amod
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thank	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the pike					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Eventuality
2	thank speech: thank	present	Bro		Ivan			for the actual reason	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme for reason=Attribute

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 · ← Mova's choice

For sparing their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	2 sparing	mark
2	sparing	spare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lives	nmod:poss
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sparing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	gerund		their lives					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

Option 2

For saving them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	2 saving	mark
2	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	gerund		them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

For kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 kindness	case
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not letting them perish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 letting	advmod
2	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 letting	obj
4	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 letting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	gerund		them = they					tree rules
2	perish	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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