Test 11 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

when the girl sat with the head, was she, like, crying the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: sit, be, cry · To what, where: she

This is test 11 · ★ 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 she	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 she	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crying	punct
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crying	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the girl			with the head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the girl not said here	she			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the girl not said here		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, she was singing softly to herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 singing	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 herself	case
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	she		herself = she			softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient

Option 2

yeah, she cried a bit then stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl:unmarked
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stopped	advmod
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	a bit					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	a bit not said here				then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was just being moody with everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 moody	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moody	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moody	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 moody	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 moody	cop
7	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 moody	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with everyone; moody property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, she was crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

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