Test 12 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…
Last one, what did the whirlwind do to the wreath?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whirlwind · What happens: do · To what, where: Last one
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whirlwind | det |
| 7 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wreath | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wreath | det |
| 11 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the whirlwind | Last one | to the wreath | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
threw it in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 threw | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 threw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | it | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sea=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
tore it to pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 tore | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 pieces | case |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 tore | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | it | to pieces | tree rules |
Option 3
broke it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | it | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
Option 4
tore it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 tore | nsubj |
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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