Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…
so what did the boy want before he bounced?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: do, want, bounce
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 bounced | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bounced | nsubj |
| 9 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bounce | past | boy | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
who his real father is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 who | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 who | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | his real father | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the secret of the old flute
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 | _ | 6 flute | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flute | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flute | amod |
| 6 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 secret | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
how to find the Sweet Milk Lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 3 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | the Sweet Milk Lake | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic |
Option 4
how to find the Sweet Milk Lake and who the elves are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 3 find | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 elves | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 elves | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elves | det |
| 11 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Lake | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | find property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | elf | the Sweet Milk Lake and the elves | tree rules |
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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