Exam question 3 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…
In which kingdom did the heat threaten to melt the iron shoes of the horse?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, threaten, melt · To what, where: heat, kingdom, iron shoes
This is exam question 3 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 kingdom | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heat | det |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 melt | mark |
| 9 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threaten | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoes | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoes | compound |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 melt | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoes | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the heat | which kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | threaten | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | melt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the iron shoes of the horse | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient shoe=Result |
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 Goddess's realm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Goddess | det |
| 2 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 realm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Goddess | case |
| 4 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the kingdom of the Goddess of Thunder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kingdom | det |
| 2 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Goddess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goddess | det |
| 5 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kingdom | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Thunder | case |
| 7 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Goddess | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the realm of the Storm Goddess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 realm | det |
| 2 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Goddess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Goddess | det |
| 5 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Goddess | compound |
| 6 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 realm | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the land of the Thunder Queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Queen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 5 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Queen | compound |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 land | nmod |
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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