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title: Lol, Ivan squeezed the egg and Koshchei went bent double, how? — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, Ivan squeezed the egg and Koshchei went bent double, how? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/432-pg22373-part24/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:432-pg22373-part24:t6:1
# text = Lol, Ivan squeezed the egg and Koshchei went bent double, how?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	double	double	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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Ivan kicked the egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:432-pg22373-part24:t6:o1:1
# text = Ivan kicked the egg
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Ivan squeezed the egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:432-pg22373-part24:t6:o2:1
# text = Ivan squeezed the egg
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Koshchei did it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:432-pg22373-part24:t6:o3:1
# text = Koshchei did it
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Koshchei squeezed the egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:432-pg22373-part24:t6:o4:1
# text = Koshchei squeezed the egg
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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