Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Mum says Koshchei begged for his life, did he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, Koshchei · What happens: say, beg, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request	past	Koshchei	for Koshchei's life	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic
3	do	past	Koshchei		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He begged to keep his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2

He begged for his life and offered Ivan everything he owned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 life	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 offered	cc
7	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 offered	iobj
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 offered	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 owned	nsubj
11	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He			for his life	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic
2	offer	past	He not said here	everything	Ivan		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Goal everything=Theme
3	own	past	Ivan				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

He begged not to be killed and promised gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 killed	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 killed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 killed	aux:pass
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 begged	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 promised	cc
8	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 killed	conj
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not kill not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	promise speech: promise	participle		gold	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He begged not to be killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 killed	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 killed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 killed	aux:pass
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 begged	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not kill not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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