Test 1 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…
Bruv, why was the stepmum so salty about Laptitza?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: stepmum
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepmum | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 1 Bruv | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stepmum | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stepmum | det |
| 6 | stepmum | stepmum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 salty | advmod |
| 8 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stepmum | amod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Laptitza | case |
| 10 | Laptitza | Laptitza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 salty | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepmum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bruv | the stepmum | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Cos she wanted her own daughter to be empress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 wanted | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 empress | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 empress | cop |
| 9 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | her own daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | her own daughter not said here | empress | tree rules |
Option 2
Cos she wanted her daughter to be queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 wanted | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 queen | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 queen | cop |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | her daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | her daughter not said here | queen | tree rules |
Option 3
Cos she was jealous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 jealous | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jealous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | cop |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | jealous property | tree rules |
Option 4
Cos she wanted her son to be king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 wanted | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 king | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 king | cop |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | her son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | her son not said here | king | tree rules |
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