Test 10 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…
Lol, how did Petru stop looking at them?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petru · What happens: stop, look
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stop | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 5 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past · do-support | Petru | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Petru not said here | at them = they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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
looked away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 looked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look away | past | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
closed his eyes up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 closed | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 closed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close up | past | his eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
tied a cloth over his eyes and rode on blindly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tied | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 tied | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 tied | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 rode | compound:prt |
| 10 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | a cloth | his eyes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride on | past | blindly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
shut his eyes tight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 shut | obj |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 shut | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | imperative | you not said here | his eyes | tight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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