Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

did Koshchei keep his promise to forgive Ivan?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: keep, forgive, promise · To what, where: promise, Ivan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 429 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain and revived, then tricks the Baba Yaga's mares and is helped by the creatures he spared» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
2	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forgive	mark
7	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	acl
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forgive	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Koshchei	Koshchei's promise	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	forgive	to-infinitive	Koshchei not said here	Ivan	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme
3	promise		Koshchei		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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

nope, he only forgave him twice and then chopped him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forgave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 forgave	advmod
5	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 forgave	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chopped	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 chopped	advmod
10	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgave	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chopped	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 chopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	he	him = he				twice property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	chop up	past	he not said here	him = he			then		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he only forgave him twice, not the third time when he chopped him up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forgave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 forgave	advmod
5	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 forgave	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 time	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgave	parataxis
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 chopped	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chopped	nsubj
15	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chopped	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 chopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	he	him = he				twice property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	chop up	past	he	him = he					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

yeah, he forgave him twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 forgave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgave	nsubj
4	forgave	forgive	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 forgave	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 forgave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	he	him = he				twice property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he only forgave him twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forgave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 forgave	advmod
5	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgave	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 forgave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	he	him = he				twice property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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