Test 13 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Why did Koshchei get his strength back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: get back · To what, where: strength

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 strength	nmod:poss
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past · do-support	Koshchei	Koshchei's strength					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

He drank three buckets of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 buckets	nummod
4	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drank	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buckets	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	He	three buckets of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient

Option 2

Prince Ivan gave him three buckets of water to drink while he was chained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ivan	compound
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 buckets	nummod
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buckets	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drink	mark
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 chained	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chained	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chained	aux:pass
14	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 drink	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	Prince Ivan	three buckets of water	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bucket=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive	Prince Ivan not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chain	past · passive		Ivan		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He was given three good meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 meals	nummod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meals	amod
6	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		He					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient meal=Theme

Option 4

He stood in the river and drank water for three whole days without stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drank	cc
7	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drank	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drank	obl
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 stopping	mark
14	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 drank	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	He		the river		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=Location
2	drink	past	He not said here	water		day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	stop	gerund	He not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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