Test 2 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Wait, so the cat went from calf to camel to a whole man?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cat · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: camel

This is test 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. 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 calf	case
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 camel	case
10	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the cat			camel		from calf; to a whole man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from calf=Initial_Location to camel=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, fam, it went up the menu fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fam	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fam	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 menu	det
9	menu	menu	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	fam	the menu				fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient menu=Extent

Option 2

Yeah, fam, it went from calf to camel to donkey to cow to a whole man in no time at all

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fam	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fam	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 calf	case
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 camel	case
10	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 donkey	case
12	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cow	mark
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 man	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	fam			camel		from calf; to donkey; to a whole man in no time at all	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from calf=Initial_Location to camel=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, bro, it went from kid to cow

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 went	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 kid	case
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cow	mark
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	bro	cow				from kid; bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from kid=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, fam, it went from the calf to the cow and then to a mountain where it ate the slaves too

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fam	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 calf	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mountain	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 mountain	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cow	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 ate	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	nsubj
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mountain	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 slaves	det
22	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ate	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	20 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	fam		the cow and a mountain			from the calf	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from calf=Initial_Location to cow=Destination
2	eat	past	fam	the slaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient

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