Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

How was the ring the Princess demanded ultimately obtained by the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring, old woman · What happens: be, obtain · To what, where: Princess

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 obtained	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 obtained	nsubj:pass
7	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obtained	aux:pass
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 obtained	advmod
9	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtained	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 obtained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ring					how property	tree rules
2	obtain	past · passive	the old woman	the Princess				ultimately property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

Ivan had it ready all along and gave it to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 along	advmod
6	along	along	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ivan	it				along, ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	give	past	Ivan not said here	it	Ivan				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ivan had it ready all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 along	advmod
6	along	along	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ivan	it				along, ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

The brothers stole it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the brothers	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She tricked the King and took it from his treasury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricked	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 treasury	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 treasury	nmod:poss
10	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	She	the King					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
2	take	past	She not said here	it		King's treasury			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from treasury=Initial_Location

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