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title: the kids baked cakes on rocks, yeah? — African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: the kids baked cakes on rocks, yeah? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1259 «African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60: the tortoise tricks the fox and the stag, and the monkey cheats the barber and the villagers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 11 · ★ · African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the kids baked cakes on rocks, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** bake

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1259 «African Folk-Tales, The Tortoise and the Monkey, part 60: the tortoise tricks the fox and the stag, and the monkey cheats the barber and the villagers» 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/1259-pg3282-part60/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1259-pg3282-part60:t11:1
# text = the kids baked cakes on rocks, yeah?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, on rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1259-pg3282-part60:t11:o1:1
# text = yeah, on rocks
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1259-pg3282-part60:t11:o2:1
# text = yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the cakes |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best, until the monkey grabbed the prettiest girl from the crowd

<!-- fold The tree, 21 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1259-pg3282-part60:t11:o3:1
# text = yeah, flat stones, and they thought the cakes were the best, until the monkey grabbed the prettiest girl from the crowd
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | flat stones |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the cakes |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grab** | past | the monkey | the prettiest girl |  | the crowd |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent girl=Theme from crowd=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, flat stones, and the cakes were kinda burnt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1259-pg3282-part60:t11:o4:1
# text = yeah, flat stones, and the cakes were kinda burnt
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past · passive | flat stones *not said here* | the cakes |  |  |  | kinda *property* | tree rules |

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