Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Mate, why'd Ivan let the pike go, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, pike · What happens: let, go though · To what, where: pike

This is test 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. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 let	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pike	det
8	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 go	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	Mate	the pike					tree rules
2	go though	infinitive	the pike not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

'Cos she promised a good turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 promised	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 turn	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turn	amod
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she	a good turn					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

Option 2

'Cos she promised to do him a good turn later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 promised	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 turn	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turn	amod
10	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he				late property	tree rules

Option 3

'Cos she was his sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 sister	case
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sister	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cos his sister	tree rules

Option 4

'Cos he felt bad for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 felt	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					for her = she; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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