Test 8 · ★ · Swaheli Tales, The Ring and the Casket, part 2: the snakes…
the flies, did the king notice them landing on the bro's hair?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flies, them · What happens: do, notice, land · To what, where: king, them, hair
This is test 8 · ★ 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 flies | det |
| 2 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 flies | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 notice | obj |
| 9 | landing | land | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 notice | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bro | det |
| 12 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bro | case |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 landing | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 notice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the flies not said here | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | notice | present | the flies | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | gerund | them = they not said here | the bro's hair | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on hair=Destination |
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
nah, no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 nah | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, he swatted them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swatted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swatted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swatted | nsubj |
| 4 | swatted | swat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swatted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swat | past | he | them = they | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he just kept on listening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 listening | case |
| 7 | listening | listening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | listening | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on listening=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was too into the tale to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 tale | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tale | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tale | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 tale | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tale | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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