Test 13 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

Bruv, what did the fishes say about the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fishes · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the fishes					about the palace	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Yonder lies our doom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 doom	nmod:poss
4	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present		our doom				yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doom=Theme
2	doom		our						nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yonder lies our destruction, the stepmother has laid a trap inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 destruction	nmod:poss
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lies	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trap	det
11	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 laid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present		our destruction	yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme
2	lay	present · perfect · passive		the stepmother	inside property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme trap=Destination
3	destroy		our			nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yonder lies our destruction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 destruction	nmod:poss
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present		our destruction				yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme
2	destroy		our						nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yonder lies our destruction, for the empress waits there to kill us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 destruction	nmod:poss
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waits	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 waits	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 empress	det
8	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waits	nsubj
9	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lies	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 waits	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 waits	advcl
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present		our destruction		yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme
2	wait	present	the empress		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	to-infinitive	the empress not said here	us			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	destroy		our				nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent

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