Test 13 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…

nah, what did the elves do when the axe came out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elves, axe · What happens: do, come out

This is test 13 · ★ 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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 elves	det
6	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 axe	det
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the elves		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out	past	the axe	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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

they wailed and offered the boy all their gold and silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wailed	nsubj
2	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 offered	cc
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wailed	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 gold	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gold	nmod:poss
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 silver	cc
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wail	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	they not said here	the boy				their gold and silver obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

Option 2

they fought back hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 fought	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	they					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

screamed and begged to get free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 begged	cc
3	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 screamed	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	xcomp
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	participle		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	participle		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they cried and sang a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sang	cc
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	they not said here	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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