Test 2 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

bruh, the cubs vanish one by one, so who's sus here?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cubs · What happens: vanish, be · To what, where: one

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	5 vanish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cubs	det
4	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vanish	nsubj
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 vanish	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 here	advmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 here	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 here	cop
13	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 here	obl:unmarked
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 vanish	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 vanish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	present	the cubs	one				by one	tree rules
2	is	present						sus obl:unmarked; here 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

the jackal, no cap, he is the sus one here

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	11 one	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jackal	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 jackal	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the jackal	the sus one		here			tree rules

Option 2

the panther, for real

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 panther	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 real	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 panther	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the jackal, no cap

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jackal	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the jackal, no cap, because he hid the cubs

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	9 hid	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jackal	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hid	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hid	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hid	nsubj
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cubs	det
11	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the jackal	the cubs					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient

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