Test 10 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

so the man ditched the grandma's skin and ran off, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: ditch, run off · To what, where: skin

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 ditched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ditched	nsubj
4	ditched	ditch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandma	det
6	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 grandma	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ditched	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ditched	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeah	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ditched	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ditched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past	the man	the grandma's skin					tree rules
2	run off	past	the man not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

Yep, he ran as hard as he could.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he					hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he ran away quickly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	he					away, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nope, he stayed in the hut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			the hut			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

Option 4

Yep, he ran as hard as he could, carrying her skin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carrying	punct
11	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ran	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carrying	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he					hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	gerund	he not said here	her skin					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1668-pg5615-part57/t10/