Test 3 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

wait, why was Masilo's mum crying over the baby?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: wait, cry · To what, where: baby

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 crying	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crying	aux
5	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Masilo	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	nsubj
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 baby	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Masilo's mum			the baby			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over baby=Location

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

cause it looked like her dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dad	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	look	past	it					like her dad	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause it was a girl, lowkey sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 girl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	conj
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here					sad property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	it	a girl and lowkey					tree rules

Option 3

cause it reminded her of the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reminded	reparandum
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reminded	nsubj
3	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reminded	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reminded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	remind speech: other	past	it		her = she			of the lake	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of lake=Topic

Option 4

cause she'd already lost two girls to the ogre's pot and she was done

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj:pass
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 girls	nummod
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 pot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 ogre	case
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 done	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		cause				to the ogre's pot	tree rules
2	do	past · passive		she					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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