Test 9 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Who took out Koshchei then, that mad skeleton man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: take out, man · To what, where: Koshchei

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 man	nsubj
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
9	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past		Koshchei			then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=Theme
2	man		that						tree rules

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 horse kicked him, then Ivan stabbed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	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 kicked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stabbed	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stabbed	advmod
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stabbed	nsubj
8	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kicked	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the horse	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	stab	past	Ivan	horse			then		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Ivan's horse kicked him, then Ivan clubbed him over the head with a big stick

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ivan	case
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clubbed	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 clubbed	advmod
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clubbed	nsubj
9	clubbed	club	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clubbed	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clubbed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stick	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stick	amod
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Ivan's horse	Ivan					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	club	past	Ivan	horse		the head	then	with a big stick	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient over head=Location with stick=Instrument

Option 3

Ivan's brothers kicked him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ivan	case
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 kicked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick down	past	Ivan's brothers	Ivan					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ivan's horse kicked him, then Ivan clubbed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ivan	case
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clubbed	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 clubbed	advmod
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clubbed	nsubj
9	clubbed	club	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clubbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Ivan's horse	Ivan					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	club	past	Ivan	horse			then		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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