Test 11 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
what did she want done with her bro in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: want, do · To what, where: end
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 want | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bro | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bro | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | she | in the end | with her bro | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do not said to happen | participle | she not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
send him to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 send | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 send | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=Destination |
Option 2
hang him by the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 hang | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gate | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 hang | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | imperative | you not said here | him = he | by the gate | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by gate=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
put him out of the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 put | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the town | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out town=Destination |
Option 4
have him sent to the sea shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shore | compound |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | him = he | the sea shore | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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