Test 9 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, pa…

were his brothers actually telling the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: brothers, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 telling	advmod
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his brothers					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	his brothers	the truth				actually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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

Nah, they wanted the water for themselves and they were willing to lie to the king about everything they did

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wanted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 willing	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 willing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 willing	cop
12	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lie	mark
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 willing	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lie	obl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 lie	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the water	for themselves = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	is	past	they		willing property	tree rules
3	lie	to-infinitive	they not said here		to the king; about everything	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about everything=Location
4	do	past	they			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they wanted the water for themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the water				for themselves = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they wanted the water for themselves, and they were planning to leave Petru behind in the forest

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wanted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 planning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 planning	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 planning	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 planning	aux
13	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wanted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 leave	mark
15	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 planning	xcomp
16	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 leave	obj
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 leave	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the water		for themselves = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	plan	past · progressive	they				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	Petru	the forest	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent petru=Theme in forest=Location

Option 4

Yeah, they wanted to share the water fairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 share	mark
6	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 share	obj
9	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	6 share	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	share not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	the water				fairly property	tree rules

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