Test 2 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

bruv, why did the buffalo get so peckish, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, get, innit · To what, where: buffalo

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bruv	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buffalo	det
6	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 peckish	advmod
9	peckish	peckish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 get	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the buffalo		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Eventuality
2	get	present	bruv		peckish property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	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

cos he ate all the beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 beans	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beans	det
6	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	cos	all beans					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos she never gave him nothing to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gave	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	past	cos	nothing	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	cos not said here	nothing not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos he was lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				lazy property	tree rules

Option 4

cos she forgot to feed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forgot	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	cos						tree rules
2	not feed	to-infinitive	cos not said here		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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