Test 9 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

who saw them at the river and told on them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: see, tell · To what, where: them, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past		them = they		the river			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	participle						on them = they	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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

Masilo's father, walking home from the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Masilo	case
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walking	punct
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 father	acl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	Masilo's father not said here			the city		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from city=Trajectory

Option 2

a hunter who had followed them for hours through the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 followed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 followed	aux
5	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunter	acl:relcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 followed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 hours	case
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 followed	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 reeds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reeds	det
11	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past · perfect · passive		a hunter		the reeds	hour		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme they=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a man chopping willows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 willows	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopping	compound
3	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 willows	compound
4	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a woman washing clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clothes	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washing	compound
3	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clothes	compound
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

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