Test 7 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

how did Thakane get Dilah out of the lake?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Thakane · What happens: get · To what, where: Dilah, lake

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 lake	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Thakane	Dilah		the lake			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dilah=Stimulus

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

she dived in with a rope and dragged her out, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dived	nsubj
2	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 dived	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dragged	cc
8	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dived	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dragged	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 dragged	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honestly	punct
12	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 dived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive in	past	she					with a rope; honestly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	drag out	past	she not said here	her = she					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

she called her name, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lowkey	punct
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	her name and lowkey					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

she waited by the shore for three nights and then called through a reed flute

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 nights	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nights	nummod
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 called	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 called	advmod
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 waited	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 flute	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flute	det
14	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flute	compound
15	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	she				night	by the shore	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location
2	call	participle	she not said here			a reed flute	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she sang the song, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she	the song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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