Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Lol, Ivan squeezed the egg and Koshchei went bent double, how?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: squeeze, bend · To what, where: egg, Koshchei

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 squeezed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 squeezed	nsubj
4	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeezed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bent	cc
8	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bent	nsubj:pass
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bent	aux:pass
10	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 squeezed	conj
11	double	double	ADV	_	10 bent	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 how	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 squeezed	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 squeezed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	Ivan	the egg					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
2	bend	past · passive		Koshchei				double property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

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 kicked the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Ivan	the egg					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ivan squeezed the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	nsubj
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	Ivan	the egg					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 3

Koshchei did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	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 did	obj

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

Option 4

Koshchei squeezed the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	nsubj
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	Koshchei	the egg					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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