Test 12 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
right, so what's the Djulung story about then?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Djulung story · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 right | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | Djulung | Djulung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 then | case |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 story | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Djulung story | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
seven sisters on an island, and the youngest bunks off her wood job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sisters | nummod |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sisters | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bunks | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bunks | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bunks | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 bunks | amod |
| 10 | bunks | bunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sisters | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 job | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 job | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 job | compound |
| 14 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bunks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | job | her = she | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
seven sisters on a boat, and the eldest runs off to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sisters | nummod |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sisters | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 runs | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 runs | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eldest | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 runs | nsubj |
| 10 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 runs | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 runs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | present | seven sisters on a boat | to the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
Option 3
seven sisters on an island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sisters | nummod |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sisters | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
six brothers in a forest, and the youngest skips her chores
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skips | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skips | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skips | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 skips | amod |
| 10 | skips | skip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brothers | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chores | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skips | obj |
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.
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