Exam question 2 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…

What did Petru state to the goddess Venus regarding the reason for his arrival at her dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: do, regard, arrive · To what, where: Petru state

This is exam question 2 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	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	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 state	compound
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 goddess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goddess	det
7	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 goddess	appos
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reason	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reason	det
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 arrival	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arrival	nmod:poss
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reason	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 dwelling	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dwelling	nmod:poss
17	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reason	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		Petru state	to the goddess; regard the reason for Venus's arrival at her dwelling	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	arrive		Venus			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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

that he was a prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 prince	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prince	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prince	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a prince					tree rules

Option 2

that he had lost his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	his horse					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that he had lost his way on the heath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 heath	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heath	det
9	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	his way		the heath			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 4

that his horse had run off in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 run	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · perfect · passive		his horse		the rain			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in rain=Trajectory

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