Test 13 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…

ok so the brothers basically stayed home and took care of their little sis?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, little sis · What happens: stay, take, care · To what, where: care

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 stayed	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 stayed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 sis	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sis	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sis	amod
14	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 care	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the brothers		basically, home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the brothers not said here	care of brothers's little sis		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	care		brothers's little sis			nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 they went out to find the parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 went	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parents	det
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	they					out property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	they not said here	the parents					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah they did and she forgot her parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forgot	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	forget	past	she	her parents					tree rules

Option 3

nah they left her alone and wandered into the forest looking for food for the whole week

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 left	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 left	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wandered	cc
7	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	obl
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wandered	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 week	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 week	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	her = she			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	wander	past	they not said here		the forest			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
3	look	gerund	they not said here			week	for food	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 4

yeah they did and she forgot her parents and wanted only to play with her brothers at home

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forgot	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgot	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 play	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 play	mark
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	they				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	forget	past	she	her parents			tree rules
3	want	past	they not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here		home	with her brothers	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=Co-Agent

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