Exam question 2 · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…
Which relative of the youngest son is recorded as having first warned him about the appearance of the beast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: having · What happens: record, have, warn · To what, where: relative, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1795 «Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his people, and his youngest son sets out to slay it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 relative | det |
| 2 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 relative | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recorded | aux:pass |
| 8 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 warned | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 warned | csubj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 having | advmod |
| 12 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 recorded | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 warned | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 appearance | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 appearance | det |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 warned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 beast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beast | det |
| 19 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appearance | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 recorded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | which relative of the youngest son | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past | having | him = he | about the appearance of the beast | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about appearance=Topic |
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 old slave who guarded the house gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slave | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slave | amod |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 guarded | nsubj |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slave | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gate | compound |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guarded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | the old slave | the house gate | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
Option 2
His brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The eldest of his six brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 brothers | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eldest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His mother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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