Test 8 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

so did the buffalo actually come back to life, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come back · To what, where: life

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	6 come	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buffalo	det
4	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 come	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support				life		actually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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, he stayed down until the husband came back with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 husband	det
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 knife	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knife	det
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay down	past	he					down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	the husband					with a knife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he shook his horns and stood up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horns	nmod:poss
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stood	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	he	his horns					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	stand up	past	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, he got up and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	run off	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, he just twitched a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 twitched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twitched	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 twitched	advmod
5	twitched	twitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twitched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twitch	past	he	a bit					vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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