Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Oi, did the wolf actually nab the hare or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: do, nab · To what, where: wolf, hare

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 nab	advmod
7	nab	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hare	det
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nab	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 hare	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi	the wolf					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	nab	present	Oi not said here	the hare				actually property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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

Yeah, the wolf caught it and gave it to Ivan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Ivan	case
11	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the wolf	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	give	past	the wolf not said here	wolf	Ivan				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ivan=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, the fox nabbed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nabbed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nabbed	nsubj
5	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past	the fox	it					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Nah, the wolf let it go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the wolf	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the wolf caught it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the wolf	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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