Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

no cap, how did Ivan get across the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: get · To what, where: river

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	conj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Ivan			the river			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination

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

by swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a stone bridge that his horse built for him over the deep river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bridge	compound
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 built	obj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj
7	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bridge	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 built	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 river	amod
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	his horse	a stone bridge		the deep river		for him = he	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Product for he=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a bridge he made with a hanky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hanky	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hanky	det
7	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	a bridge					with a hanky	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

on a horse that could fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fly	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 horse	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	a horse						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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