Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

so is Ivan getting the steed or nah?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 getting	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 getting	nsubj
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steed	det
6	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 getting	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	Ivan	the steed					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steed=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

yeah, he gets it at the end after the flies and birds help him out

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 help	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 flies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flies	det
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 end	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 birds	cc
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flies	conj
14	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 help	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	he	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	help out	present			him = he		at the end after the flies and birds		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

not yet, the story keeps going for a while longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 keeps	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the story				yet		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the story not said here				while	long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he gets it right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	he	it				away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

not yet, the story keeps going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 keeps	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the story				yet		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the story not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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