Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear». It's the fifth time. What's wise?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle, buddy · What happens: pay back, swear, be · To what, where: ya, fifth time
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Uncle
uncle
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 pay
nsubj
2
:
:
PUNCT
_
4 pay
punct
3
«
«
PUNCT
_
4 pay
punct
4
pay
pay
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
ya
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
4 pay
obj
6
back
back
ADV
_
4 pay
advmod
7
next
next
ADJ
Degree=Pos
8 week
amod
8
week
week
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 pay
obl:unmarked
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 buddy
punct
10
buddy
buddy
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 week
conj
11
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 swear
punct
12
swear
swear
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
4 pay
parataxis
13
»
»
PUNCT
_
12 swear
punct
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 pay
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
pay backin a quote
infinitive
Uncle
ya
week
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset
2
swearin a quote
infinitive
vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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.
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.