Test 6 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Did the hero actually bother to tell his mates bye, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero · What happens: bother, tell · To what, where: mates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bother	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 bother	advmod
5	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bother	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	obj
10	bye	bye	INTJ	_	7 tell	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bother	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	past · do-support	the hero					actually property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		hero's mates					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient

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

he gave them their gifts back and walked off alone

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gifts	nmod:poss
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 walked	compound:prt
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	their gifts	them = they		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gift=Theme
2	walk off	past	he not said here			alone property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gift		their = they				nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he gave them their gifts back

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gifts	nmod:poss
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	their gifts	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gift=Theme
2	gift		their = they						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he gave them their gifts back and never looked behind

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gifts	nmod:poss
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
10	behind	behind	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	their gifts	them = they		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gift=Theme
2	not look	past	he not said here			behind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	gift		their = they				nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

he took the gifts with him

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gifts	det
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the gifts				with him = he	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

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