Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

so what did the Aged One actually do to Ivan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Aged One, Ivan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 One	det
5	Aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 One	amod
6	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Ivan	case
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Aged One					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	do	present			Ivan			actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

gave him a task

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 task	det
4	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		a task	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient task=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

sent him on an errand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 errand	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 errand	det
5	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		him = he		a errand			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

sent him on a long and dangerous errand across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 errand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 errand	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 errand	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dangerous	cc
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj
8	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		him = he		a long errand		across the sea	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

sent him to fetch a fiery horse from afar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sent	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 afar	case
9	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		him = he					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive		a fiery horse		afar			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from afar=Source

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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