Exam question 2 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…

What was the nature of the object bestowed upon Petru by the goddess Mittwoch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, bestow · To what, where: object

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 object	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 object	det
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 object	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Petru	case
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 goddess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goddess	det
13	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl
14	Mittwoch	Mittwoch	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 goddess	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the object						tree rules
2	bestow	participle		the object not said here				upon Petru; by the goddess	tree rules

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

a little chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chest	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chest	amod
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a small casket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 casket	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 casket	amod
3	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	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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