Test 8 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

lol, why did the nyamatsanes eat pebbles at their grandma's, dude?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nyamatsanes · What happens: eat · To what, where: pebbles

This is test 8 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eat	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nyamatsanes	det
6	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 grandma	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandma	nmod:poss
11	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 grandma	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dude	punct
14	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grandma	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	the nyamatsanes	pebbles				at nyamatsanes's grandma and dude	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient

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

They were asleep in the hut.

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	3 asleep	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			the hut		asleep property	tree rules

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

They were fooled by the man.

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	3 fooled	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fooled	aux:pass
3	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fooled	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fooled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · passive	the man	They					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

They were hungry.

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hungry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4

They were lazy.

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	3 lazy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					lazy property	tree rules

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