Test 7 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

wait, why were the flowers so dangerous to pick, like proper cursed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flowers · What happens: wait, be, pick, curse

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dangerous	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dangerous	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dangerous	nsubj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pick	mark
10	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dangerous	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cursed	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 cursed	mark
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 cursed	advmod
14	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the flowers	dangerous property	tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	curse	participle	you not said here	properly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

they were under a curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 curse	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 curse	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 curse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 curse	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			a curse			tree rules

Option 2

the flowers were guarded by a witch who would strike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guarded	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guarded	aux:pass
4	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guarded	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strike	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 strike	aux
10	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 witch	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past · passive	a witch	the flowers					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	strike	would	a witch						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

the flowers belonged to the Welwa who would strike back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Welwa	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Welwa	det
6	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 strike	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 strike	aux
9	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Welwa	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 strike	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the flowers					to the Welwa	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	strike back	would	the Welwa						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they were full of magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 full	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of magic; full property	tree rules

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