Test 7 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

bro, what's the husband's whole plan with the bread?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: whole plan

This is test 7 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 plan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 husband	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bread	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bread	det
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	the husband's whole plan				with the bread	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

He eats it for food on the long way home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	2 eats	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	it		the long way		for food; home property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

He gives it to the nyamatsanes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 nyamatsanes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nyamatsanes	det
6	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	He	it	the nyamatsanes				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nyamatsane=Recipient

Option 3

He eats it for food on the way and sells the bag at market.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sells	cc
10	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eats	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sells	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 market	case
14	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sells	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	it		the way		for food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sell	present	He not said here	the bag		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent bag=Theme at market=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He eats it for food on the way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	it		the way		for food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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