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title: bruh, the cubs vanish one by one, so who's sus here? — Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, the cubs vanish one by one, so who's sus here? Test 2 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 2 · ★ · Bassoto Tales, The Nyamatsane, part 1: a man kills a grand…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bruh, the cubs vanish one by one, so who's sus here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cubs · **What happens:** vanish, be · **To what, where:** one

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This is test 2 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1668-pg5615-part57/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1668-pg5615-part57:t2:1
# text = bruh, the cubs vanish one by one, so who's sus here?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | present | the cubs | one |  |  |  | by one | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sus *obl:unmarked*; here *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the jackal, no cap, he is the sus one here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1668-pg5615-part57:t2:o1:1
# text = the jackal, no cap, he is the sus one here
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the jackal | the sus one |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the panther, for real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1668-pg5615-part57:t2:o2:1
# text = the panther, for real
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the jackal, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1668-pg5615-part57:t2:o3:1
# text = the jackal, no cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the jackal, no cap, because he hid the cubs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1668-pg5615-part57:t2:o4:1
# text = the jackal, no cap, because he hid the cubs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the jackal | the cubs |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |

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**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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