Exam question 4 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…

What instruction did the horse give concerning the copper wreath before Petru approached the house of Venus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, horse, Petru · What happens: do, give, concern, approach · To what, where: copper wreath, house

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 give	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wreath	det
9	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wreath	compound
10	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 approached	mark
12	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 approached	nsubj
13	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 concerning	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 approached	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Venus	case
17	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the horse		tree rules
3	concern	gerund	the horse not said here	the copper wreath	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wreath=Experiencer
4	approach	past	Petru	the house of Venus	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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

to keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

to carry it to Venus and lay it at her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Venus	case
5	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive		it	Venus				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to venus=Destination
2	lay	infinitive		it		Venus's feet			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to throw it upon a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		it		a hill			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon hill=Destination

Option 4

to hide it in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cave	det
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		it		a cave			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in cave=Location

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