Test 10 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…

bro, how big was the giant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giant	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bro	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bro					giant property	tree rules

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

so big he needed a ladder to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needed	xcomp
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needed	nsubj
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ladder	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	he	a ladder				big property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot ladder=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	a ladder not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

huge, and snoring under the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snoring	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snoring	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 snoring	cc
4	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snoring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund				the trees			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

big enough he stopped to measure him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	advcl
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 big	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 measure	mark
6	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 measure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	measure	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value

Option 4

big enough he stopped to measure him with his own hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	advcl
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 big	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 measure	mark
6	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 measure	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 measure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	measure	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he				with his own hands	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value

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