Test 6 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…
how much cattle did Masilo just hand over?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Masilo · What happens: hand over · To what, where: much cattle
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cattle | amod |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hand | aux |
| 5 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 hand | advmod |
| 7 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 hand | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | past · do-support | Masilo | much cattle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
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
a thousand, the finest ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ones | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 5 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a thousand, the lean ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ones | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 5 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
five hundred, the fat ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ones | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ones | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
about a hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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