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Ifeoma from Lagos: "The birds no wan stay at all, dem just japa." ("japa" = run away, leave fast.) Why did they "japa"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds, japa · What happens: stay, run away, leave, do, japa · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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

Sentence 1: Ifeoma from Lagos: "The birds no wan stay at all, dem just japa."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ifeoma	Ifeoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Lagos	case
3	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ifeoma	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	nsubj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 stay	det
9	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	amod
10	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ifeoma	appos
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stay	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dem	punct
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	appos
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 japa	advmod
16	japa	japa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dem	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 dem	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote		the birds			all			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.

Sentence 2: ("japa" = run away, leave fast.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 japa	punct
3	japa	japa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 japa	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 run	punct
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	conj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 leave	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	infinitive	japa					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	japa not said here					fast property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: Why did they "japa"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 japa	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 japa	punct
5	japa	japa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 japa	punct
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	japa in a quote		birds = bird						tree rules

The options

Option 1

They were scared

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 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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

Alice said Dinah eats little birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	Dinah	little birds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

Option 3

Alice started singing a sad song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	Alice						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Alice not said here	a sad song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

Alice talked about the cat Dinah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
6	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cat	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Alice					about the cat	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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