Test 9 · ★ · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…

did the king cry when he saw the kid, or was he chill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, he · What happens: do, see, be · To what, where: king cry, kid

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chill	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cry	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	compound
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chill	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 chill	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chill	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chill	nsubj
14	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	kid not said here	the king cry		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality
2	see	past	he	the kid		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
3	is	past	kid		chill property	tree rules

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

he just smiled and nodded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smiled	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 smiled	advmod
3	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nodded	cc
5	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nod	past	he not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he got really mad at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

nah he laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 laughed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he cried loads and was gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cried	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gutted	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he	loads					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic
2	gut	past · passive	he not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»

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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