Test 5 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…
ngl, the dragon with twelve heads, did Petru chicken out or go for it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do out, go · To what, where: Petru chicken
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ngl | appos |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dragon | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chicken | compound |
| 11 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 did | compound:prt |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 did | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do out | past | ngl | Petru chicken | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | ngl not said here | for chicken | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
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
he chickened out and ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chickened | nsubj |
| 2 | chickened | chicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 chickened | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chickened | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chicken out | past | he | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | he not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
went for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | for it | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
Option 3
backed away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 backed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back away | participle | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
he hesitated for a long while before deciding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hesitated | nsubj |
| 2 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hesitated | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 deciding | mark |
| 8 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hesitated | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | past | he | while | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | decide | gerund | he not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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