Test 5 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Was the boy scared of anything in the bush?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 anything	case
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 scared	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bush	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy					of anything; scared property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the bush scared him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bush	det
4	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
5	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	the bush	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, nothing fazed him, not even the Nunda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 fazed	nsubj
4	fazed	faze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fazed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Nunda	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Nunda	advmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 Nunda	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nunda	det
10	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fazed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faze	past	nothing	him = he				the Nunda obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, he was scared of the dark, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dark	det
8	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the dark; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was scared of the Nunda, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Nunda	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Nunda	det
8	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the Nunda; scared property	tree rules

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