Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

What was the ultimate fate of Koshchei the Deathless?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ultimate fate · What happens: be, fate · To what, where: Koshchei

This is exam question 3 of lesson 432 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan wins Koshchei's death and brings the ring home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Koshchei	case
7	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Deathless	det
9	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Koshchei	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ultimate fate of Koshchei						tree rules
2	fate			Koshchei					nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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

he escaped into the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	he			the forest			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he was destroyed by the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 destroyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 destroyed	aux:pass
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 destroyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	the egg	he					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

he was destroyed when the egg was smashed by Ivan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 destroyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 destroyed	aux:pass
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 smashed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smashed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smashed	aux:pass
8	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 destroyed	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Ivan	case
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive		he					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	smash	past · passive	Ivan	the egg					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

he was crushed by the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crushed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crushed	aux:pass
3	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past · passive	the egg	he					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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