Test 11 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…
was the old lady scared someone was watching?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone · What happens: be, scare, watch · To what, where: old lady
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lady | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | csubj |
| 5 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scared | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scare | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | someone | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she felt eyes on them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | she | eyes | on eyes = eye | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on they=Location |
Option 2
nah, she was chill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | chill property | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, she saw a bird fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fly | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | compound |
| 7 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | a bird fly | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |
Option 4
yeah, she heard a cow moo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 heard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moo | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moo | compound |
| 7 | moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | she | a cow moo | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moo=Stimulus |
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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