Exam question 4 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…
What information did Mogarzea furnish to the boy upon his departure?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: information, Mogarzea · What happens: furnish, depart · To what, where: boy
This is exam question 4 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 | 5 furnish | obj |
| 2 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furnish | aux |
| 4 | Mogarzea | Mogarzea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 furnish | nsubj |
| 5 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 boy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnish | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 departure | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 departure | nmod:poss |
| 11 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnish | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 furnish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past · do-support | information | the boy | upon Mogarzea's departure | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to boy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | depart | Mogarzea | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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
Directions to the old emperor's court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 emperor | amod |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 court | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 emperor | case |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Directions | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The secret of the elves' magic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 magic | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elves | det |
| 5 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 magic | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 elves | case |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 secret | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The lake's name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lake | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lake | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | the lake | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The route to the Sweet Milk Lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 route | det |
| 2 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lake | det |
| 5 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lake | amod |
| 6 | Milk | Milk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lake | compound |
| 7 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 route | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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