Test 1 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

bro, did the ogre actually get cooked in the pot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, cook · To what, where: ogre

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1225 «Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby from the ogre's pot, and a father pays a thousand cattle to win back his daughter» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogre	det
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 cooked	advmod
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cooked	aux:pass
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ogre	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the ogre					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Eventuality
2	cook	present · passive		the ogre not said here				in the pot; actually property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: in pot=Instrument

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

nah, he jumped out of the pot and ran off into the hills, bruv

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 pot	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 hills	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hills	det
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	past	he	the pot				bruv obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pot=Trajectory
2	run off	past	he not said here					into the hills result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hill=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, done to a turn, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 done	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 turn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turn	det
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle						to a turn	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, but the pot cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cracked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cracked	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cracked	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the pot						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, he's still alive out there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alive	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 alive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			there	still	alive property	tree rules

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