Test 11 · ★ · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…

what did the thirtieth duck do that the others didn't?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thirtieth duck, others · What happens: do, not do · To what, where: thirtieth duck

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1908 «Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan meets a magician's daughter and is set three tasks underground» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duck	det
4	thirtieth	thirtieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duck	amod
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 duck	acl:relcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 did	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the thirtieth duck	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Eventuality
2	do	present	the thirtieth duck not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do	past	the others		vn act-114-1 «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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

it was the only one who spoke to Milan out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Milan	case
9	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obl
10	out	out	ADV	_	7 spoke	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	7 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the only one					tree rules
2	speak out speech: other	past	the only one		Milan			loud, out property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to milan=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it couldn't get to land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 land	mark
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	it	land					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

it could swim faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swim	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	could	it					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

it stayed on the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it			the water			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location

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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