Test 12 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…
why did stan turn back on the road home, honestly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stan · What happens: turn back · To what, where: road
This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 turn | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 honestly | punct |
| 11 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past · do-support | stan | the road | home, honestly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
he feared the dragon behind him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feared | obj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | he | the dragon | behind dragon | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
he thought about his hungry kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 kids | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kids | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kids | amod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | about his hungry kids | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kid=Topic |
Option 3
he had heard a rumour that the dragon's mother had sent a shadow to follow him
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rumour | det |
| 5 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 sent | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shadow | det |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | he | a rumour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the dragon's mother | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination shadow=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | dragon | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
he worried about the cold road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 worried | nsubj |
| 2 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | past | he | about the cold road | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about road=Stimulus |
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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