Test 10 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

ok so why did Masilo cry all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Masilo · What happens: cry

This is test 10 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 cry	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cry	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
5	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Masilo				day		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

lost cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cows	amod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

upset, his dog ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 upset	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dog	nmod:poss
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	his upset dog					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

happy, his daughter's alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 alive	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 daughter	case
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 happy	conj

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

Option 4

sad, his cows got stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cows	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sad	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cows	nmod:poss
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stolen	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	aux:pass
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · passive		his sad cows					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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