Test 10 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

mint, what did Birscha reckon Petru had done wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mint, Petru · What happens: reckon, do

This is test 10 · ★ 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	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	Birscha	Birscha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 done	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reckon	xcomp
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 done	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	mint						tree rules
2	do	past · perfect	Petru					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

had not gone the right way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 gone	advmod
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect		the right way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 2

was too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	cop
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 slow	advmod
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						slow property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

chose the wrong road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past		the wrong road					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

did not set about it properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 set	advmod
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obl
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	3 set	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	past · do-support						about it; properly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination

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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