Test 12 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…
so the buffalo's gonna be fine now, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gonna · What happens: be, innit
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 buffalo | det |
| 3 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gonna | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 buffalo | case |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fine | cop |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 fine | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fine | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | the buffalo's gonna | now | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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, not yet, she has to wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 yet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yet | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 yet | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 has | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yet | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wait | mark |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 has | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | she | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, not yet, she's got to try it again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 yet | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 1 nah | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 try | mark |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 try | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 try | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | she not said here | it | again | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
yeah, he's up and about now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 up | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 up | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 up | cop |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 now | cc |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 now | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 up | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | up property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, not yet, she's got to blow the horn and sing the dirge again
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 yet | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 1 nah | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 blow | mark |
| 10 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horn | det |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sing | cc |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 blow | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dirge | det |
| 16 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sing | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 sing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | blow | to-infinitive | she not said here | the horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | she not said here | the dirge | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dirge=Theme |
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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