Test 1 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Bro, did the sultan really say "my cat" even when it ate a kid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say, eat · To what, where: sultan, cat, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sultan	det
5	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cat	nmod:poss
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 ate	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 ate	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kid	det
17	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the sultan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro not said here	my cat	tree rules
3	eat	past	Bro	a kid	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

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

Yeah, bro, he said it every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	bro			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bana, he did, every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bana	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bana	punct
3	bana	bana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bana	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bana	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bana	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	bana and every single time not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bana=Eventuality

Option 3

Nah, bana, he said it only once, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bana	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bana	bana	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bana	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 once	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bana	it				fam obl; once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, bana, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bana	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bana	punct
3	bana	bana	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bana	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bana						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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