Test 7 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Gopani-Kufa and the Magic Mirror, part 4:…

Why did Shasasa start bawling about the Mirror going missing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Shasasa · What happens: start, bawl, go

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1138 «Gutenberg 3027, Gopani-Kufa and the Magic Mirror, part 4: the Mirror is stolen and the white men take all the power» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 start	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
3	Shasasa	Shasasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Mirror	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mirror	det
8	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bawling	obl
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bawling	conj
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	start	past · do-support	Shasasa		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bawl speech: other	gerund	Shasasa not said here	about the Mirror	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about mirror=Topic
3	go	gerund	Shasasa not said here	missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos Butou nicked it from under her pillow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	nsubj
2	Butou	Butou	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 pillow	case
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 pillow	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pillow	nmod:poss
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	Cos	it		Cos's pillow			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pillow=Source

Option 2

Cos Butou nicked it from under her pillow while she was asleep, and she felt proper rubbish

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	nsubj
2	Butou	Butou	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 pillow	case
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 pillow	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pillow	nmod:poss
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 asleep	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asleep	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asleep	cop
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nicked	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicked	parataxis
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rubbish	amod
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nick	past	Cos	it	Cos's pillow		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pillow=Source
2	is	past	Cos			asleep property	tree rules
3	feel	past	Cos	proper rubbish			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme

Option 3

Cos her dad was bawling at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 bawling	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bawling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bawling	aux
5	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bawling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past · progressive	her dad					at her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the wasp told her the Mirror had been stolen by a bloke pretending to be a poor white man in the night

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wasp	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wasp	det
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mirror	det
7	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stolen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stolen	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stolen	aux:pass
10	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 bloke	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bloke	det
13	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stolen	obl
14	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stolen	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	20 man	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 man	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pretending	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 night	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			her = she		cos the wasp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	steal	past · perfect · passive	a bloke	the Mirror				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	pretend	gerund	a bloke not said here					tree rules
4	is a	to-infinitive	a bloke not said here	a poor white man		night		tree rules

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