Test 7 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…
What did the horse say to him, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: say · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the horse | him = he | mate vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient |
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
Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited in this dreadful place for you
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hail | appos |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hail | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 waited | nsubj |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 place | det |
| 12 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waited | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 waited | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hail | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | I | this dreadful place | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
Option 2
Greetings, Ivan, I have waited long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ivan | punct |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Greetings | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Greetings | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | aux |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 waited | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · perfect · passive | Greetings | long property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hail | appos |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hail | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 waited | nsubj |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hail | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited here for you to come
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hail | appos |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hail | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 waited | nsubj |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 waited | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 waited | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 waited | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hail | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | I | here | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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