Test 1 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, pa…

yo, the giant was proper huge, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1783 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 34: Petru beats the giant, takes the magic water, and meets his brothers.» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 huge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 huge	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 huge	cop
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 huge	advmod
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 huge	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 huge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant					huge, properly property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Giant was too big, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Giant					mate vocative; big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Petru totally tricked him with his flute and a hanky, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 tricked	advmod
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 flute	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flute	nmod:poss
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hanky	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hanky	det
10	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flute	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flute	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	Petru	him = he				with Petru's flute and a hanky and no cap; totally property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The giant was huge and he got knocked out with a rock, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 huge	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huge	cop
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knocked	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knocked	nsubj:pass
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knocked	aux:pass
8	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 huge	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 knocked	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 huge	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 huge	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant					huge property	tree rules
2	knock out	past · passive		giant				with a rock	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rock=Instrument

Option 4

The giant just kept on fighting for three whole days, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 fighting	mark
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fighting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive		the giant					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fight	gerund		no joke			day		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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