Test 3 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…

wait, how did the house get built so fast lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, build · To what, where: house

This is test 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 built	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 built	advmod
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	past · passive · do-support		the house				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 ring built it

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	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the ring	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

Option 2

the snakes sent builders over during the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send over	past	the snakes	builders			night	over property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent builder=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the ring just built it when she told it, like magic

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	4 built	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 built	advmod
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 told	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 magic	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 magic	case
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the ring	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	she		ring				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

a crew of workmen came overnight and built it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crew	det
2	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 workmen	case
4	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crew	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 built	cc
8	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a crew of workmen					overnight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	past	a crew of workmen not said here	crew					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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