Exam question 4 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

With reference to the passage, state the mixed feelings Petru expressed when asking how he ought to have set about the matter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petru · What happens: mix, express, ask, set · To what, where: mixed feelings, Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
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	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feelings	det
9	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 feelings	amod
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 state	obj
11	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 expressed	nsubj
12	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 feelings	acl:relcl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 asking	advmod
14	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 expressed	xcomp
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 set	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj:pass
17	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	20 set	mark
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 set	aux
20	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 asking	ccomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 matter	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mix	participle				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	express	past	Petru	the mixed feelings not said here		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	Petru not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set not said to happen	ought · perfect · passive		Petru	about the matter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about matter=Destination

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

angry and ashamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ashamed	cc
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 angry	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

half angry, half sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 angry	advmod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 angry	conj

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

Option 3

half angry with himself, half sad about the loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 angry	advmod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	advcl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 angry	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
6	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 loss	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loss	det
10	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl

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

Option 4

bitterly angry, yet also deeply and quietly sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	2 angry	advmod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deeply	punct
4	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 deeply	cc
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 deeply	advmod
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 quietly	cc
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 deeply	conj
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 angry	advcl

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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