Test 8 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

did Dilah grow up slow down there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dilah · What happens: grow up

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
2	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grow	compound:prt
5	slow	slow	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grow	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · do-support	Dilah			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, super fast, like wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fast	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 wild	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fast	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she aged super fast but also turned into a fish, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 aged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 aged	nsubj
4	aged	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 aged	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aged	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 fish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honestly	punct
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 aged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	age	past	she					fast, honestly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	turn	past	she not said here					into a fish result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

Option 3

nah, she stayed tiny, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she	lowkey				tiny property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, she stayed a baby for ages, like super slow, no lie

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 slow	case
11	super	super	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she	a baby			for ages		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme baby=Location

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