Exam question 2 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…

What is the designation of the instrument upon which the boy performed for the maidens?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: designation, boy · What happens: be, perform, designate · To what, where: instrument

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1816 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy wins back Mogarzea's soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designation	det
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 instrument	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 instrument	det
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 performed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 performed	nsubj
12	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 instrument	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 maidens	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maidens	det
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 performed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the designation of the instrument			tree rules
2	perform	past	the boy		upon the instrument; for the maidens	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for maiden=Beneficiary
3	designate			the instrument		nom designation «communication transitive»: of=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

A fiddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 whistle	det
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A wooden flute carved from a cherry tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flute	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flute	amod
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flute	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		a wooden flute not said here		a cherry tree			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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