Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…
Mate, how did the emperor feel about having to punish Laptitza?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: feel, have, punish · To what, where: Laptitza
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feel | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 feel | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 punish | mark |
| 11 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 having | xcomp |
| 12 | Laptitza | Laptitza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 punish | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | the emperor | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the emperor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | punish | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | Laptitza | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laptitza=Patient |
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
It nearly broke his heart and he was sick about it all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sick | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sick | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sick | cop |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 broke | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sick | obl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | It | his heart | day | nearly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | he | about heart; sick property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It nearly broke his heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | It | his heart | nearly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient |
Option 3
It totally shattered him inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shattered | nsubj |
| 2 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 3 shattered | advmod |
| 3 | shattered | shatter | 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 shattered | obj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 shattered | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shatter | past | It | him = he | inside, totally property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
It nearly broke his heart, proper, like he'd lost everything in the world
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proper | punct |
| 7 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 broke | conj |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 lost | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | It | his heart | nearly, properly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | he | everything | the world | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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