Test 10 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Did the boy hide the food so they could eat later?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, they · What happens: hide, eat · To what, where: food

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nsubj
4	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 eat	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hide	advcl
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 eat	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	the boy	the food					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	eat	could	they					late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, he told them to hide it in the thicket by the river so the Nunda would not find it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hide	mark
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hide	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 thicket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thicket	det
11	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 find	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nunda	det
17	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 find	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 find	advmod
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hide	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		the thicket	by the river	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in thicket=Location
3	not find	would	the Nunda	river				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, he told them to bury it, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bury	mark
7	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bury	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they			bro vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bury not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he told them to hide it in the thicket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hide	mark
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hide	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 thicket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thicket	det
11	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		the thicket			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in thicket=Location

Option 4

Nah, he told them to throw it away, because the food would make the Nunda come to them faster.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 throw	mark
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throw	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 throw	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 throw	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nunda	det
17	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
21	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 come	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	throw away not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	make	would	the food	the Nunda			tree rules
4	come	infinitive	the Nunda not said here		them = they	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location

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