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title: wait, why was Masilo's mum crying over the baby? — Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mot… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, why was Masilo's mum crying over the baby? Test 3 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Basuto Tales, Thakane and Dilah: a mother hides her baby f…

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wait, why was Masilo's mum crying over the baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, mum · **What happens:** wait, cry · **To what, where:** baby

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t3:1
# text = wait, why was Masilo's mum crying over the baby?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Masilo's mum |  |  | the baby |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over baby=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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cause it looked like her dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = cause it looked like her dad
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like her dad | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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cause it was a girl, lowkey sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = cause it was a girl, lowkey sad
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | a girl and lowkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cause it reminded her of the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = cause it reminded her of the lake
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	reparandum	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | it |  | her *= she* |  |  | of the lake | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of lake=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause she'd already lost two girls to the ogre's pot and she was done

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1225-pg3282-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = cause she'd already lost two girls to the ogre's pot and she was done
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | cause |  |  |  | to the ogre's pot | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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