Test 3 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Sawa, so the youngest son was the only one not at the wheat field?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: youngest son · What happens: be · To what, where: only one, wheat field

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Sawa	Sawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
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	10 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sawa	appos
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 field	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 field	det
14	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	compound
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sawa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the youngest son	the only one		the wheat field			tree rules

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, he was at the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 field	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 field	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 field	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the field			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he stayed home with his mama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 mama	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mama	nmod:poss
8	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					with his mama; home property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mama=Location

Option 3

Yeah, he was home with mama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 home	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 home	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 home	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 home	cop
5	home	home	ADV	_	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 mama	case
7	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with mama; home property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he went to the wheat, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wheat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wheat	det
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wheat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			the wheat and fam			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wheat=Initial_Location

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