Test 14 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

bro, what did the copper flowers keep saying to make Petru pick them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: copper flowers, Petru · What happens: do, keep, say, make, pick · To what, where: Petru, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	ccomp
12	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pick	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			bro vocative	tree rules
2	keep	present	the copper flowers			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the copper flowers not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive		Petru		tree rules
5	pick	infinitive	Petru not said here	flowers = flower		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

beautiful things, come and take me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 things	punct
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	beautiful things						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	infinitive	beautiful things not said here		me				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

wonderful things, come pick me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 things	punct
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	wonderful things						tree rules
2	pick	infinitive	wonderful things not said here	me					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

Option 3

pick us, we are lovely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 pick	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 pick	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lovely	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lovely	cop
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pick	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	us					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	is	present	we					lovely property	tree rules

Option 4

come pick me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 come	xcomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	pick	infinitive	you not said here	me					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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