Test 4 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

wait, the baboon poked the rock with a stick, lol, what happened next?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, baboon · What happens: wait, poke, happen · To what, where: rock

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baboon	det
4	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	nsubj
5	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stick	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poked	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
16	next	next	ADV	_	15 happened	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	poke	past	the baboon	the rock	with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent rock=Theme with stick=Instrument
3	happen	past			next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 panther ran off to the lake.

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	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the panther					to the lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lake=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bees went wild on the panther and the cubs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 panther	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 panther	det
7	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cubs	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cubs	det
10	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 panther	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the bees			the panther and the cubs		wild property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on panther=Location

Option 3

They ran.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bees went wild on the panther.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 panther	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 panther	det
7	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the bees			the panther		wild property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on panther=Location

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