Exam question 3 · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
What did the wife request in respect of her brother's punishment?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: do, respect, punish · To what, where: wife request, respect, punishment
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1311 «Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes' gifts, a palace built in a moment, and the king's visit» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 request | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 request | compound |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 respect | case |
| 7 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 punishment | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 12 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wife request | respect of her brother's punishment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | respect | her brother's punishment | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | punish | her brother | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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
Option 1
That he be hanged at the city gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hanged | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hanged | aux:pass |
| 4 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gate | compound |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hanged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hange | infinitive · passive | That | the city gate | tree rules |
Option 2
That he be expelled from the town and his property be seized
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 expelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expelled | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expelled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 property | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 property | nmod:poss |
| 10 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | conj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seized | aux:pass |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 expelled | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | infinitive · passive | That | the town and his property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from town=Source | ||||
| 2 | seize | infinitive · passive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
That he be expelled from the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 expelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expelled | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | infinitive · passive | That | the town | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from town=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
That he be expelled from the town and forbidden to ever return to the kingdom
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 expelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expelled | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expelled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forbidden | cc |
| 9 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 expelled | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 return | advmod |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forbidden | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | infinitive · passive | That | the town | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from town=Source | ||||
| 2 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | ever | to the kingdom result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result |
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