Exam question 3 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…

By what means did Petru pass beyond the river that surrounded the Fairy's castle, according to the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petru · What happens: mean, pass, surround, accord · To what, where: river

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pass	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pass	aux
5	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pass	nsubj
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 surrounded	nsubj:pass
11	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 river	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 castle	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Fairy	case
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 surrounded	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passage	punct
17	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 passage	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 according	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past · do-support	Petru		beyond the river; accord the passage	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by what=Location
3	surround	participle · passive		the river		tree rules
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

by swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by a wooden bridge over the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

by a golden ferry across the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 ferry	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ferry	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ferry	amod
4	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ferry	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the bridge, which resembled soft clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resembled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 resembled	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 resembled	nsubj
5	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clouds	amod
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resembled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	past	the bridge	soft clouds					tree rules

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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