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

lol so thakane just chopped the tree?? like with an axe??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thakane · What happens: chop · To what, where: tree

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 chopped	advmod
3	thakane	thakane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chopped	advmod
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 axe	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 axe	det
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obl
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	thakane	the tree					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, tiny bowl first then full on whack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowl	amod
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 full	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 full	advmod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 whack	case
9	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	obl

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

Option 2

yep he used an axe for the tree and then it fell down in the field

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 used	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 fell	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a axe				for the tree	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent axe=Theme for tree=Eventuality
2	fall down	past	axe			the field	then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah the tree came down with a stone, he had already dropped the bowl

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dropped	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dropped	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 dropped	advmod
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the tree					with a stone; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	past · perfect	tree	the bowl					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme

Option 4

nope, he used a little spear thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a little spear thing					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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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