Test 6 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
what was she wearing so nobody could see her face?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, nobody · What happens: wear, see · To what, where: face
This is test 6 · ★ 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 wearing | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wearing | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wearing | nsubj |
| 4 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wearing | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wearing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · progressive | she | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | could | nobody | her face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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
a plain shawl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shawl | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shawl | amod |
| 3 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a heavy silk hood pulled down low
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hood | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hood | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hood | compound |
| 4 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hood | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pulled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | participle | a heavy silk hood not said here | low property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
a mask of painted wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mask | det |
| 2 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wood | amod |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mask | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a veil of golden gauze round her head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 veil | det |
| 2 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gauze | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gauze | amod |
| 5 | gauze | gauze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 veil | nmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gauze | nmod |
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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