Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

bro did Ivan actually eat that lion cub?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 cub	mark
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cub	compound
8	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	Ivan					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Eventuality
2	eat	present						actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «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

nope, he let it be because the lioness begged him really hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begged	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	cop
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 begged	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lioness	det
9	lioness	lioness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	obj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	infinitive	the lioness					beg, hard property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he ate it but the lioness begged him to stop after the first bite

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lioness	det
8	lioness	lioness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begged	nsubj
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 bite	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bite	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 bite	amod
16	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	eat	past	he	it			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	the lioness		him = he		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lioness not said here			after the first bite	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

nope, he kept it as a pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 pet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pet	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it				as a pet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he let it be because the lioness begged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lioness	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lioness	cop
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 lioness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lioness	det
9	lioness	lioness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lioness	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	it		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	imperative	you not said here		because the lioness	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	participle		the lioness not said here		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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