Exam question 1 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…
Which crown did Petru first cast aside upon his journey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crown, Petru · What happens: do, cast, journey · To what, where: journey
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1781 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru crosses the ice and the heat, then throws away the copper wreath» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cast | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cast | advmod |
| 6 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 7 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 6 cast | advmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cast | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which crown | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | Petru | Petru's journey | aside, first property | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon journey=Destination | |||
| 3 | journey | Petru | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
the copper crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | compound |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the copper crown from his father's great hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | compound |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the heavy copper crown his brothers had given him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 copper | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 copper | amod |
| 3 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 copper | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crown | obj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | infinitive | the heavy copper not said here | his brothers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the heavy copper | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme |
Option 4
the silver ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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