Test 6 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…

so does the rabbit actually get dad to stop??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get, stop · To what, where: rabbit, dad

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dad	acl
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	the rabbit		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality
2	get	present	dad	actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dad=Stimulus
3	stop	to-infinitive	dad not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

yeah he finally turns around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turns	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turns	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	present	he					around, finally property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah he just keeps walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 keeps	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	he						tree rules
2	walk	gerund	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah he stops and talks to the rabbit for a long while about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 stops	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talks	cc
5	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stops	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 rabbit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talks	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 while	amod
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talks	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 while	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	talk	present	he not said here				while	to the rabbit	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to rabbit=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope he just keeps walking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 keeps	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	he						tree rules
2	walk	gerund	he not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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