Test 3 · ★ · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…

that old dude in the tree was sus, right? what did he want?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dude, he · What happens: be, want

This is test 3 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dude	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dude	amod
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sus	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dude	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sus	cop
8	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 sus	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 want	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sus	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that old dude in the tree					suspect property	tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

for the king to come back to the tree and pay up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pay	cc
11	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 pay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	to-infinitive	the king			the tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	pay up	infinitive	the king not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his son back in the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	nsubj
3	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his debt paid by the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 debt	nmod:poss
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 debt	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		his debt not said here				by the king	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

for the king to remember the debt he owed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 king	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 remember	mark
5	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 king	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 debt	det
7	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 owed	nsubj
9	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 debt	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 owed	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive		the debt					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent debt=Theme
2	owe	past	king	the debt not said here	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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