Test 6 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mama, Nunda · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fresh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mama	nmod:poss
6	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Nunda	det
9	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	10 looked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	his mama						tree rules
2	look	past	the Nunda						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Big ears and stripes like a zebra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ears	amod
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stripes	cc
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ears	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 zebra	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zebra	det
7	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ears	nmod

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

Option 2

Small ears, spots like a civet-cat, and a tail as long as a camel's neck

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ears	amod
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spots	punct
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ears	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 cat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
7	civet	civet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 civet	punct
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spots	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 long	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tail	det
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 long	nsubj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ears	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 neck	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 camel	det
18	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 neck	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 camel	case
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 long	obl

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

Option 3

Huge ears and black stripes all over, like a zebra mixed with a big hyena and a lion

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ears	amod
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stripes	cc
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stripes	amod
5	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ears	conj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 stripes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 zebra	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 zebra	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zebra	det
11	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ears	conj
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 zebra	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 hyena	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hyena	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hyena	amod
16	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lion	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		a zebra not said here				with a big hyena	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with hyena=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Small ears and spots like a civet-cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ears	amod
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spots	cc
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ears	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 cat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
7	civet	civet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 civet	punct
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ears	nmod

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

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