Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Sus, what did the lover say he'd do once he found three sillier peeps?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, say, find · To what, where: lover, three sillier peeps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lover	det
6	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	advcl
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 peeps	nummod
15	sillier	silly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 peeps	amod
16	peeps	peep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	the lover	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Sus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	Sus		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Sus	three sillier peeps	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Topic

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

come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

return to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 return	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

wed the cook's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cook	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	imperative	you not said here	the cook's daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

come back and wed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 come	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wed	cc
4	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 come	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	w	past	you not said here	her = she					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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