Test 7 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…
what did she use to get the buffalo going again?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, buffalo · What happens: use, get, go · To what, where: buffalo
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 use | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buffalo | det |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 buffalo | acl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · do-support | she | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | she not said here | the buffalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the buffalo not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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
a sad song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a reed, some oil, and a loud drum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reed | det |
| 2 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oil | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 oil | det |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drum | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drum | det |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drum | amod |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reed | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a bowl, deer fat, and a happy tune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bowl | det |
| 2 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | compound |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowl | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tune | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tune | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tune | det |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tune | amod |
| 10 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowl | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a horn, deer fat, and a sad song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horn | det |
| 2 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | compound |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horn | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 horn | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 song | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 song | amod |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horn | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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