Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

How did the egg end up back with Ivan, like, actual magic?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: egg · What happens: be, end up

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 end	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Ivan	case
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 end	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 magic	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 magic	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 magic	amod
14	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the egg					how property	tree rules
2	end up	present						with Ivan	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

The duck did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the duck						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A wolf did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	a wolf						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The pike brought it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pike	det
2	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	the pike	it					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

The pike swam down and brought it back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pike	det
2	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brought	cc
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim down	past	the pike					down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring back	past	the pike not said here	pike					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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