Test 9 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

no cap, the grandma was super old, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grandma	det
5	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 old	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no cap					old, super 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, she was quite strong.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 strong	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct

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

Option 2

Yeah, she was so feeble she could barely stand up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 feeble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feeble	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeble	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeble	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 feeble	advmod
6	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feeble	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 stand	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feeble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					feeble property	tree rules
2	stand up	could	she					barely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, young.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 young	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was so feeble.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 feeble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feeble	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeble	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeble	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 feeble	advmod
6	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feeble	punct

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

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