Test 2 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, pa…

so wait, why did he keep playing the flute?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, keep, play · To what, where: flute

This is test 2 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	conj
8	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flute	det
10	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past · do-support	he		tree rules
3	play	gerund	he not said here	the flute	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=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

Cos every single time he played it the giant dropped off, so Petru could get away with the whole plan and go home

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 time	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 played	nsubj
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 played	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	nsubj
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dropped	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
14	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 get	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 played	advcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 plan	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plan	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plan	amod
21	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 get	conj
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	it	time		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop off	past	the giant				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	get away	could	Petru			with the whole plan; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	infinitive	Petru not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos every time he played it, the giant dropped off again, and then his brothers came back to steal the water

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	X	_	3 time	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dropped	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	nsubj
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dropped	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 dropped	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 steal	mark
21	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	play	past	he	it	time	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop off	past	the giant		again	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	past	giant's brothers		then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	steal	to-infinitive	giant's brothers not said here	the water		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme

Option 3

Cos the giant kept waking up every single time, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 giant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 waking	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waking	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past						cos the giant	tree rules
2	wake up	gerund					time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos every time he played it, the giant dropped off again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	X	_	3 time	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	nsubj
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dropped	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop off	past	the giant				again; time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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