Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

lol, what did the horse tell Petru to dig in, like, up to the rowel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, tell, dig in · To what, where: horse, Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
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	7 tell	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dig	mark
10	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	xcomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 dig	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	10 dig	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rowel	punct
15	up	up	ADV	_	18 rowel	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 rowel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rowel	det
18	rowel	rowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dig	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	the horse		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present		Petru	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dig in not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn create-26.4-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

spur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saddle	det
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his spurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spurs	nmod:poss
2	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spur		his = he						nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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