Test 12 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…
honestly, what did the emperor call Birscha when Petru asked him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor, Petru · What happens: call, ask · To what, where: Birscha · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 7 call | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 honestly | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 call | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Birscha | Birscha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 asked | advmod |
| 10 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the emperor | Birscha | honestly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme birscha=Result | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Petru | Birscha | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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
a wicked old sorceress who cursed our house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sorceress | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sorceress | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sorceress | amod |
| 4 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cursed | nsubj |
| 6 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorceress | acl:relcl |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cursed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | a wicked old sorceress | our house | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
an old fool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fool | amod |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
an old witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a meddling old woman who knew far too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | meddling | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woman | acl:relcl |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 much | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meddle | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | past | a meddling old woman | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
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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