Test 2 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…

ngl, why'd the elves get stuck in the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elves · What happens: get

This is test 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. 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 elves	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elves	det
6	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the elves					ngl vocative; stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

bc the boy swung the axe down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bc	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swung	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swung	nsubj
4	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swung	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 swung	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing down	past	bc	the axe					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axe=Theme

Option 2

the boy hid the axe well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the boy	the axe				well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cuz the boy yanked the axe out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 yanked	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yanked	nsubj
4	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yanked	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 yanked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive	the boy not said here						tree rules
2	yank out	past	the boy	the axe					tree rules

Option 4

cuz the boy pulled the axe out after they begged him to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 boy	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 pulled	compound:prt
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 begged	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stop	mark
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive				tree rules
2	pull out	past	the cuz boy	the axe		tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	they		boy	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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