Test 5 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

What did the brothers do when he went down the hole?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers, he · What happens: do, go down · To what, where: hole

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hole	det
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the brothers		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	he	the hole	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hole=Extent

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

They waited by it, as he'd told them, for three whole days

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 waited	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 days	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	They				day	by it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

They waited by it all night long, arguing over who should go down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waited	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arguing	punct
9	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waited	advcl
10	over	over	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 go	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 arguing	xcomp
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	They	night	by it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	They not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go down	should			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

They left and went to the tavern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tavern	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tavern	det
7	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	They not said here			the tavern			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They waited by it, as he'd told them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 waited	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	They					by it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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/t5/