Test 13 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

fr, did the panther ever find her cubs at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, panther · What happens: do, find · To what, where: panther, cubs, end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 panther	det
5	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 find	advmod
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 panther	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cubs	nmod:poss
9	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the panther					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panther=Eventuality
2	find	infinitive	the panther not said here	fr's cubs			at the end; ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cub=Theme at end=Asset

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

Nope, she found them dead.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	she	them = they				dead property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she never did.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, she never did and she searched the whole lake for them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 searched	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 searched	nsubj
8	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 searched	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 searched	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	search	past	she	the whole lake				for them = they	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lake=Location for they=Theme

Option 4

Yes, she found one cub.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cub	nummod
6	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	she	one cub					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Topic

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