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title: Sus, what did the lover say he'd do once he found three sillier peeps? — Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what did the lover say he'd do once he found three sillier peeps? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

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Sus, what did the lover say he'd do once he found three sillier peeps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** do, say, find · **To what, where:** lover, three sillier peeps · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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/1547-pg540-part44/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t5:1
# text = Sus, what did the lover say he'd do once he found three sillier peeps?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	sillier	silly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	peeps	peep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Sus | the lover |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | would | Sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | Sus | three sillier peeps |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t5:o1:1
# text = come back
1	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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return to the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t5:o2:1
# text = return to the king
1	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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wed the cook's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t5:o3:1
# text = wed the cook's daughter
1	wed	wed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cook	cook	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	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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come back and wed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t5:o4:1
# text = come back and wed her
1	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wed	w	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **w** | past | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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