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title: Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason? — Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Iv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

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Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, thank · **To what, where:** pike, Ivan

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1131-pg29672-part37/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t11:1
# text = Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the pike |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Eventuality |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Bro |  | Ivan |  |  | for the actual reason | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme for reason=Attribute |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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For sparing their lives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t11:o1:1
# text = For sparing their lives
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sparing	spare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | gerund |  | their lives |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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For saving them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t11:o2:1
# text = For saving them
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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For kindness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t11:o3:1
# text = For kindness
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Not letting them perish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t11:o4:1
# text = Not letting them perish
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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**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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