Test 9 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part 32: Petru…

Those maidens in the valleys, what were they doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maidens · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 maidens	det
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 valleys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valleys	det
5	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 maidens	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 doing	obj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 doing	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 doing	nsubj
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	that maidens in the valleys						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

singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

whispering his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whispering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund		his name					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

waving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

calling him softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 calling	obj
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 calling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			him = he			softly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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