Test 3 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…

Innit, what did the horse say to stop Petru warming up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: say, stop, warm up · To what, where: Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj
11	warming	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 warming	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Innit		tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive		Petru	tree rules
3	warm up	gerund			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 right answer

do not stop at the fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 fires	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fires	det
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the fires			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fire=Location

Option 2

keep away from warm hearths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 keep	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 hearths	case
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hearths	amod
5	hearths	hearth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	imperative	you not said here			warm hearths		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from hearth=Eventuality

Option 3

never sit by the flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 sit	advmod
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 flames	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flames	det
5	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	imperative	you not said here					by the flames	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by flame=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

do not stop at the fires or touch any warm thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 fires	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fires	det
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 touch	cc
8	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 thing	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the fires			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fire=Location
2	touch	present	you not said here	any warm thing					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme

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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