Test 1 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

yo, did the girl's buffalo actually fetch water like a boss or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fetch · To what, where: buffalo, water

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1169 «Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl brings the dead buffalo back to life, and her husband spies on her» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buffalo	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 girl	case
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 fetch	advmod
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 boss	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boss	det
13	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nah	cc
15	nah	nah	INTJ	_	13 boss	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the girl's buffalo					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Eventuality
2	fetch	present		water				like a boss; actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he dropped the bucket in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	the bucket		the lake			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme in lake=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he brought the bucket back full to the brim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bucket	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 brim	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brim	det
11	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl

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

Option 3

nah, he tipped the bucket over and ran off into the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tipped	nsubj
4	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tipped	obj
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 tipped	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tipped	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 reeds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reeds	det
13	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	past	he	the bucket				over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme
2	run off	past	he not said here					into the reeds result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into reed=Result

Option 4

yeah, but he spilt half of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 spilt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spilt	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 spilt	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spilt	nsubj
5	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 spilt	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spilt	past	he	half of half					tree rules

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