Exam question 4 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…

Which of the following describes the sleeping guardian whom Petru encountered upon approaching the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petru · What happens: follow, describe, encounter, approach · To what, where: sleeping guardian, castle

This is exam question 4 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	5 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 describes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 describes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 describes	nsubj
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guardian	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guardian	compound
8	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 encountered	obj
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 encountered	nsubj
11	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 guardian	acl:relcl
12	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	13 approaching	mark
13	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 encountered	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 approaching	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the sleeping guardian	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guardian=Theme
3	encounter	past	Petru	the sleeping guardian	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	approach	gerund	Petru not said here	the castle	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

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

a witch asleep beside the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	nsubj
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl

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

Option 2

a giant who was frightened of the flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 flute	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flute	det
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		a giant				of the flute	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a giant lulled to sleep by the music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lulled	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lulled	amod
3	lulled	lull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lulled	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 music	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 music	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lull	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	to-infinitive						by the music	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a giant lulled to sleep by the music of the magic flute at the gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lulled	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lulled	amod
3	lulled	lull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lulled	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 music	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 music	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 flute	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flute	det
11	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flute	amod
12	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 music	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lull	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	to-infinitive				the gate		by the music of the magic flute	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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