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title: no cap, how did Ivan get across the river? — Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Iva… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, how did Ivan get across the river? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

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no cap, how did Ivan get across the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** river

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» 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/430-pg22373-part22/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:430-pg22373-part22:t3:1
# text = no cap, how did Ivan get across the river?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Ivan |  |  | the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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by swimming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:430-pg22373-part22:t3:o1:1
# text = by swimming
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stone bridge that his horse built for him over the deep river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:430-pg22373-part22:t3:o2:1
# text = a stone bridge that his horse built for him over the deep river
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | his horse | a stone bridge |  | the deep river |  | for him *= he* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Product for he=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a bridge he made with a hanky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:430-pg22373-part22:t3:o3:1
# text = a bridge he made with a hanky
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a bridge |  |  |  |  | with a hanky | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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on a horse that could fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:430-pg22373-part22:t3:o4:1
# text = on a horse that could fly
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | could | a horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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