Exam question 1 · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

Which animal is the jackal deceiving when he pretends that the cubs are still present?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, jackal, cubs · What happens: be, deceive, pretend · To what, where: jackal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1668 «Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grandmother nyamatsane, tricks her family, and flings a stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jackal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jackal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackal	det
5	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	deceiving	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 jackal	acl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 pretends	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pretends	nsubj
9	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deceiving	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 present	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cubs	det
12	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 present	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 present	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 present	advmod
15	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretends	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 jackal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which animal	the jackal			tree rules
2	deceive	gerund	the jackal not said here				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	present	animal				tree rules
4	is	present	the cubs		still	present property	tree rules

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 jackal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the panther and the baboon together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 baboon	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baboon	det
5	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 panther	conj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 panther	advmod

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

Option 3

the baboon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baboon	det
2	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the panther

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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