Exam question 1 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…
Which of the following did the horse instruct Petru to bring to the goddess Venus, as recorded in the passage?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, instruct, bring, record · To what, where: Petru, goddess Venus, passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1782 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33: Petru reaches Venus's house, wins her trust, and sets out for the Fairy's castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 instruct | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 horse | case |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 instruct | obl |
| 8 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 instruct | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 instruct | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Venus | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Venus | det |
| 14 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Venus | compound |
| 15 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recorded | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 recorded | mark |
| 18 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bring | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 passage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 passage | det |
| 21 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 recorded | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 instruct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | infinitive | Petru | of the horse | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the goddess Venus | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to venus=Destination | |||||
| 4 | record | participle | the passage | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in passage=Destination |
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 flagon of water drawn from the well at midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flagon | det |
| 2 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flagon | nmod |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flagon | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 midnight | case |
| 10 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | the flagon of water not said here | midnight | from the well | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from well=Co-Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a golden bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridle | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridle | amod |
| 3 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the silver flute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flute | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flute | amod |
| 3 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the silver wreath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wreath | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wreath | amod |
| 3 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/e1/