Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Ivan's brothers cut the ladder, right, being well mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: cut, mean · To what, where: ladder

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ivan	case
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	12 mean	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 mean	nsubj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 mean	advmod
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cut	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	Ivan's brothers	the ladder					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product
2	mean	infinitive						well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

Yeah, so he got stuck up top and couldn't get down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 stuck	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stuck	nsubj
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stuck	compound:prt
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stuck	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past · passive		he				top obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	not get down	could						down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, so he got stuck up top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 stuck	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stuck	nsubj
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stuck	compound:prt
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past · passive		he				top obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

Nah, they were nice and let him climb down the ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nice	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 climb	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladder	det
12	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		nice property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	they not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	climb down	infinitive	him = he not said here	the ladder		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, so he was stuck below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 stuck	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stuck	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	cop
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					below, stuck property	tree rules

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