Exam question 4 · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
Which of the two gifts did the wife consent to receive from the snakes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two gifts · What happens: do, receive · To what, where: wife consent
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 did | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gifts | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gifts | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 gifts | nummod |
| 5 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 consent | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consent | compound |
| 9 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 receive | mark |
| 11 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 consent | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 snakes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snakes | det |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 receive | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the two gifts | the wife consent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the two gifts not said here | the wife consent not said here | from the snakes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from snake=Source |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The ring and the casket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 casket | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 casket | det |
| 5 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ring | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The casket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 casket | det |
| 2 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The gold and the fan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fan | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fan | det |
| 5 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cup and the mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mirror | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mirror | det |
| 5 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1311-pg3454-part36/e4/