--- title: lol, what did the horse tell Petru to dig in, like, up to the rowel? — Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy o… · tree and pragmatics description: lol, what did the horse tell Petru to dig in, like, up to the rowel? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1779-pg641-part30/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1779-pg641-part30/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:… lol, what did the horse tell Petru to dig in, like, up to the rowel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, tell, dig in · **To what, where:** horse, Petru · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1779-pg641-part30/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t4:1 # text = lol, what did the horse tell Petru to dig in, like, up to the rowel? 1 lol lol INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Petru Petru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 like like INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rowel rowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the horse | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | | Petru | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **dig in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} reins ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t4:o1:1 # text = reins 1 reins rein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} spur ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t4:o2:1 # text = spur 1 spur spur NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the saddle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t4:o3:1 # text = the saddle 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} his spurs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t4:o4:1 # text = his spurs 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 spurs spur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spur** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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. 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