Exam question 1 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

With reference to the passage, identify the object which the old nurse instructed Petru to strike against the pillars.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old nurse · What happens: identify, instruct, strike · To what, where: object, pillars

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 instructed	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nurse	amod
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 instructed	nsubj
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 object	acl:relcl
15	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 instructed	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 strike	mark
17	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 instructed	xcomp
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 pillars	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pillars	det
20	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 strike	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object		with reference to the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	instruct speech: other	past	the old nurse	the object			tree rules
3	strike	to-infinitive	the old nurse not said here		the pillars		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pillar=Location

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

the piece of old leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 leather	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leather	amod
5	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the scrap of the oldest black reins from the pile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scrap	det
2	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 reins	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reins	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 reins	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reins	amod
7	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrap	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pile	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pile	det
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reins	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the scrap of old reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scrap	det
2	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 reins	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reins	amod
5	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrap	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a bit of old harness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 harness	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harness	amod
5	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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