Exam question 3 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

With reference to the passage, identify the creature whose anger the picking of the copper flowers was said to provoke.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, say, provoke · To what, where: creature, anger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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 creature	det
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 anger	nmod:poss
11	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj:pass
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 picking	det
13	picking	picking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flowers	det
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flowers	compound
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 picking	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux:pass
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 creature	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 provoke	mark
21	provoke	provoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the creature	with reference to the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		anger		tree rules
3	provoke	to-infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 wicked witch king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Welwa of the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Welwa	det
2	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woods	det
5	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Welwa	nmod

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

Option 3

the dragon of the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragon	nmod

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

Option 4

the furious Welwa who lived in the deepest woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Welwa	det
2	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Welwa	amod
3	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
8	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 woods	amod
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the furious Welwa			the deepest woods			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

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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