Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: youngest son

This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proper	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 lucky	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 lucky	advmod
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brave	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youngest son					tree rules

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

Lucky, he found the hole by chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lucky	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 chance	case
8	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Lucky	the hole				by chance	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brave, he went out alone at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he				midnight	Brave vocative; alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Brave, he went out alone at midnight into the dark deer park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 park	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 park	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 park	amod
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 park	compound
13	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he			the dark deer park	midnight	Brave vocative; alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Brave, he went out alone at midnight with no help from anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 help	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 help	det
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he			anyone	midnight	with no help; Brave vocative; alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with help=Co-Agent

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