Test 7 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…

What did the iron shoes do in the heat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: iron shoes · What happens: do · To what, where: heat

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	do	present	the iron shoes			the heat			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

started melting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past		melting					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melting=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

began to melt away and dripped onto the burning ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 melt	mark
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 began	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 melt	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dripped	cc
6	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 began	conj
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	10 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ground	compound
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	melt away	to-infinitive		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drip	past	the burning ground		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto ground=Location

Option 3

began to drip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 drip	mark
3	drip	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 began	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drip	to-infinitive							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

started melting and the horse nearly fell lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 started	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 started	conj
8	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	melt	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fall	past	the horse	lame	nearly property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lame=Result

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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