diff --git a/packages/client/src/runtime/RequestHandler.ts b/packages/client/src/runtime/RequestHandler.ts
index 7d641b6741de..d305e63b4c17 100644
--- a/packages/client/src/runtime/RequestHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/client/src/runtime/RequestHandler.ts
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ export class RequestHandler {
     }
     const operation = Object.keys(data)[0]
     const response = Object.values(data)[0]
-    const pathForGet = dataPath.filter((key) => key !== 'select' && key !== 'include')
+    const pathForGet = dataPathToGetPath(dataPath)
     const extractedResponse = deepGet(response, pathForGet)
     const deserializedResponse =
       operation === 'queryRaw'
@@ -367,3 +367,19 @@ function convertValidationError(error: EngineValidationError): EngineValidationE
 
   return error
 }
+
+/**
+ * Converts a fluent-API dataPath into the path used to read the result out of
+ * the response. dataPath is a sequence of [selector, relationField] pairs where
+ * the selector is always 'select' or 'include'. The relation field names (the
+ * odd positions) form the path. Filtering by the literal values 'select' or
+ * 'include' would also drop a relation field that happens to be named that way,
+ * so the path is derived positionally instead.
+ */
+export function dataPathToGetPath(dataPath: string[]): string[] {
+  const getPath: string[] = []
+  for (let index = 1; index < dataPath.length; index += 2) {
+    getPath.push(dataPath[index])
+  }
+  return getPath
+}
diff --git a/packages/client/src/runtime/dataPathToGetPath.test.ts b/packages/client/src/runtime/dataPathToGetPath.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c21e3128b96b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/client/src/runtime/dataPathToGetPath.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { dataPathToGetPath } from './RequestHandler'
+
+describe('dataPathToGetPath', () => {
+  test('returns the relation field names from a fluent dataPath', () => {
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath(['select', 'posts'])).toEqual(['posts'])
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath(['select', 'posts', 'include', 'comments'])).toEqual(['posts', 'comments'])
+  })
+
+  test('keeps a relation field named "select" or "include"', () => {
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath(['select', 'select'])).toEqual(['select'])
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath(['select', 'include'])).toEqual(['include'])
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath(['select', 'posts', 'select', 'select'])).toEqual(['posts', 'select'])
+  })
+
+  test('returns an empty path for the root result', () => {
+    expect(dataPathToGetPath([])).toEqual([])
+  })
+})