Exam question 2 · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

Which of the brothers, on the third night, took his arms and entered the deer park?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: take, enter · To what, where: arms, deer park

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brothers	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 brothers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 night	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brothers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brothers	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arms	nmod:poss
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 entered	cc
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 park	det
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 park	compound
18	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the brothers and the third night	his arms					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	enter	past	the brothers and the third night not said here	the deer park					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Destination

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

The eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 2

The middle son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The youngest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The second brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1531-pg540-part28/e2/