Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33:…

wait, did Petru ever tell her he lost his horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Petru · What happens: wait, tell, lose · To what, where: her, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Petru		her = she	ever	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lose	past	Petru	Petru's horse			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

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

yep, he said it to the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	it	the dogs				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to dog=Recipient

Option 2

yes, he said his horse was lost and asked for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	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	8 lost	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lost	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 help	case
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past · passive		his horse	for help	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	participle				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yep, he told her the horse had run off into the heath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux
9	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 run	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 heath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heath	det
13	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	run off	past · perfect · passive		the horse		the heath			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into heath=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he didn't say a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	he	a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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