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title: fr, what did the chief want the dude to do? — Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the chief want the dude to do? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1270 «Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks the avenger into the tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, what did the chief want the dude to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr, chief, dude · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** dude

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1270 «Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks the avenger into the tree» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1270-pg338-part7/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1270-pg338-part7:t6:1
# text = fr, what did the chief want the dude to do?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | the chief | the dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Find the red eagle nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1270-pg338-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = Find the red eagle nest
1	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | the red eagle nest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kill the red eagle with the arrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1270-pg338-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = Kill the red eagle with the arrow
1	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | the red eagle |  |  |  | with the arrow | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with arrow=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Marry the chief's daughter now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1270-pg338-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = Marry the chief's daughter now
1	Marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go out and kill the red eagle with the magic arrow, then come back for his daughter's hand

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1270-pg338-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = Go out and kill the red eagle with the magic arrow, then come back for his daughter's hand
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the red eagle |  |  |  | with the magic arrow | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
| 3 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for eagle's daughter's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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