Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Bro, how did Ivan get the ring, actual magic or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: get · To what, where: ring

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 magic	punct
10	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magic	amod
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 magic	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Ivan	the ring				Bro vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=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

By asking the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 asking	mark
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the old woman				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient

Option 2

By trading a horse, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 trading	mark
2	trading	trade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mate	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trading	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 trading	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	gerund		a horse					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By tossing a ring for youths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 tossing	mark
2	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossing	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 youths	case
6	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tossing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	gerund		a ring				for youths	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ring=Product for youth=Beneficiary

Option 4

Bought it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bought	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bought	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past		it				mate vocative	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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