Test 1 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

yo, so what did the old nurse tell Petru to do, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old nurse · What happens: do, tell, innit · To what, where: Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nurse	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nurse	amod
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the old nurse	Petru	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old nurse not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	innit	infinitive	the old nurse not said here		tree rules

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

search the whole kingdom for his dad's old horse at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kingdom	amod
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 search	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	10 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dad	case
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 search	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	imperative	you not said here	the whole kingdom				for his dad's old horse	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Location for horse=Theme

Option 2

go out and find his father's old war horse in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 find	cc
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	compound
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	infinitive	you not said here	his father's old war horse		the forest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

find his dad's old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dad	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	his dad's old horse					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

fetch his brother home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 fetch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	his brother				home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

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