Exam question 2 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…
To what purpose did Stan undertake his journey to the end of the world?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stan · What happens: undertake, journey · To what, where: journey
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 undertake | obj |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undertake | aux |
| 5 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 undertake | nsubj |
| 6 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 undertake | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 undertake | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 undertake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past · do-support | Stan | Stan's journey | to the end of the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | journey | Stan | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
To obtain sustenance for his family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 obtain | mark |
| 2 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtain | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtain | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | to-infinitive | sustenance | for his family | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent sustenance=Theme for family=Asset |
Option 2
To look for a new home abroad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 look | mark |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 home | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 home | amod |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | for a new home; abroad property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme |
Option 3
To find gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | gold | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
To earn a reward from a distant lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 earn | mark |
| 2 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 reward | det |
| 4 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 earn | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lord | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 7 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lord | amod |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 earn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | to-infinitive | a reward | from a distant lord | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reward=Theme from lord=Source |
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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