Test 4 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

did the husband really shoot the buffalo, like, dead?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, shoot · To what, where: husband, buffalo

This is test 4 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 shoot	advmod
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buffalo	det
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	11 dead	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoot	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the husband					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
2	shoot	present		the buffalo					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=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

yeah, two shots in the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shots	nummod
4	shots	shot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chest	det
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shots	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

nah, he only hit the leg and the buffalo ran off into the bush

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 hit	advmod
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leg	det
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 buffalo	det
10	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bush	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bush	det
15	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	the leg					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Co-Theme
2	run off	past	the buffalo					into the bush result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bush=Result

Option 3

nah, he only wounded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wounded	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wounded	advmod
5	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wounded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound	past	he	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, one shot behind the ear and he was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shot	nummod
4	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					gone property	tree rules

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