Test 11 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

bruh, what's the stone he picked up for, like, real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: be, pick up

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picked	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 picked	nsubj
8	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 picked	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	8 picked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	8 picked	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 what	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	pick up	past	the stone						vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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

To throw it on the ground for a last hope and a long walk home.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 hope	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hope	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hope	amod
10	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walk	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 walk	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 walk	amod
14	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hope	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 walk	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		it		the ground		for a last hope and a long walk	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To throw it at the cloud for some hope left.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hope	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 hope	det
9	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	nmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hope	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		it		the cloud for some hope			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at cloud=Destination
2	leave	participle		some hope not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To throw it on the ground for a last hope.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 hope	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hope	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hope	amod
10	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		it		the ground		for a last hope	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination

Option 4

To make a noise for the cloud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a noise				for the cloud	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent noise=Product for cloud=Asset

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