--- title: ok so why did Masilo cry all day? — Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mot… · tree and pragmatics description: ok so why did Masilo cry all day? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1225 «Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby from the ogre's pot, and a father pays a thousand cattle to win back his daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1225-pg3282-part26/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mot…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1225-pg3282-part26/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f… ok so why did Masilo cry all day? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Masilo · **What happens:** cry This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1225 «Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby from the ogre's pot, and a father pays a thousand cattle to win back his daughter» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1225-pg3282-part26/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t10:1 # text = ok so why did Masilo cry all day? 1 ok ok INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Masilo Masilo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · do-support | Masilo | | | | day | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} lost cows ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t10:o1:1 # text = lost cows 1 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} upset, his dog ran away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t10:o2:1 # text = upset, his dog ran away 1 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | past | his upset dog | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} happy, his daughter's alive ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t10:o3:1 # text = happy, his daughter's alive 1 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} sad, his cows got stolen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t10:o4:1 # text = sad, his cows got stolen 1 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | past · passive | | his sad cows | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | **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. 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