Test 14 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…

the fish she caught, what was it like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish · What happens: catch, be · To what, where: fish, it

This is test 14 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fish	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 what	nsubj
9	like	like	INTJ	_	6 what	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	fish	the fish not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	is a	past		it					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

rainbow-coloured, it flashed loads of colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coloured	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 rainbow	punct
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flashed	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flashed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flashed	nsubj
6	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flashed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 colours	case
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	past	it	loads of colours					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Theme

Option 2

rainbow-coloured, it flashed loads of colours in the sun and glowed when she lifted it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coloured	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coloured	punct
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flashed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flashed	nsubj
6	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coloured	parataxis
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flashed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 colours	case
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loads	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flashed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glowed	cc
14	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flashed	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 lifted	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lifted	nsubj
17	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glowed	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lifted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flash	past	it	loads of colours	in the sun	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Patient in sun=Topic
2	glow	past				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lift	past	she	sun		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

dull grey with a black fin and spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grey	amod
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 fin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fin	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fin	amod
6	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grey	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spots	cc
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fin	conj

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

Option 4

rainbow-coloured, it flashed loads of colours and sparkled like a glass bead in the water

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coloured	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coloured	punct
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flashed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flashed	nsubj
6	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coloured	parataxis
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flashed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 colours	case
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loads	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sparkled	cc
11	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flashed	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 bead	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bead	det
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bead	compound
15	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sparkled	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bead	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	past	it	loads of colours					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Theme
2	sparkle	participle						like a glass bead in the water	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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