Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…
Who was the shadowy crew following him about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadowy crew · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: shadowy crew, him
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 crew | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crew | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crew | det |
| 4 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crew | amod |
| 5 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 crew | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 following | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 following | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 crew | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the shadowy crew | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the shadowy crew not said here | him = he | about property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
daughters of the whirlwind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 whirlwind | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whirlwind | det |
| 4 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 daughters | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nymphs of the cold mist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mist | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mist | det |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mist | amod |
| 5 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nymphs | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the dark spirits who serve the goddess of the heath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirits | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirits | amod |
| 3 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 goddess | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 serve | nsubj |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goddess | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goddess | det |
| 7 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heath | det |
| 10 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goddess | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the dark spirits | the goddess | of the heath | tree rules |
Option 4
the nine daughters of the cold northern wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughters | det |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 daughters | nummod |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughters | 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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