Test 6 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

fr, the jackal said sting her well, so the bees were on her side?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, bees · What happens: say, sting, be · To what, where: jackal, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jackal	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sting	obj
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sting	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 side	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 side	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bees	det
12	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 side	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 side	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 side	nmod:poss
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sting	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fr and the jackal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sting	infinitive		jackal		well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	is	past	the bees		jackal's side		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

Yep.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, they stung her hard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 stung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stung	nsubj
4	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hard	nmod:poss
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stung	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	they	her hard					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hard=Experiencer

Option 3

Yep, they chased her away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 chased	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	they	her = she				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Nope, not at all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct

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

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