Test 4 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Poa, so how many brothers got eaten in the thicket?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: eat · To what, where: Poa, thicket

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Poa	POA	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brothers	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brothers	amod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Poa	conj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 thicket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thicket	det
11	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		Poa and many brothers		the thicket			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Four, bro, four of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 four	punct
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 four	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Two, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Three, bro, three of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Three	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 three	punct
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Three	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 three	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Three, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Three	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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