Test 9 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…
did thakane sleep or was she too scared lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, be · To what, where: thakane sleep
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thakane | thakane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sleep | amod |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 scared | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 scared | advmod |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 did | conj |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 did | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | thakane sleep | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | she | scared property | tree rules |
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 she stayed awake all night staring at the stars and worrying about her brothers
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stayed | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 stars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stars | det |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 staring | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 worrying | cc |
| 12 | worrying | worry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 staring | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 worrying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | she | night | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stare | gerund | she not said here | at the stars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | ||||
| 3 | worry | gerund | she not said here | about her brothers | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about brother=Stimulus |
Option 2
she slept till dawn cause she was super tired from walking all day long
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 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 cause | mark |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 slept | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tired | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tired | cop |
| 8 | super | super | ADV | _ | 9 tired | advmod |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 walking | mark |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tired | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walking | obj |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 walking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | she | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cause | present | dawn | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | is | past | she | super, tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | she not said here | day | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
she didn't sleep cause she was scared
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 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | past · do-support | she | cause | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | cause not said here | scared property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
she slept till dawn cause she was super tired
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 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 cause | mark |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 slept | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tired | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tired | cop |
| 8 | super | super | ADV | _ | 9 tired | advmod |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | she | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cause | present | dawn | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | is | past | she | super, tired property | tree rules |
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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