Test 12 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…

why'd the bear sister help the boys with the moss tho

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bear sister · What happens: help · To what, where: boys

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1224 «Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane is taken to the ogre, and the animals ask why» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 help	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sister	compound
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 moss	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moss	det
11	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	obl
12	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the bear sister		the boys			with the moss	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Beneficiary with moss=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

they asked nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	2 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	they					nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

she was their aunt and had to do it according to family rules and tradition

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aunt	cop
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nmod:poss
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aunt	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rules	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rules	compound
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tradition	cc
15	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 aunt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	their aunt and tradition		tree rules
2	have	past	she not said here			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	she not said here	it	accord family rules	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

she felt sorry for them in their misery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 misery	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 misery	nmod:poss
8	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she			their misery		for them = they; sorry property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme in misery=Location

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