Test 7 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

Did the slaves really find the Nunda on the first day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slaves · What happens: find · To what, where: Nunda

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slaves	det
3	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nunda	det
7	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the slaves	the Nunda			day		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Topic

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, the tracks were fake, every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tracks	det
4	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fake	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tracks				day	fake property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they really found it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the footprints were fake, every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 footprints	det
4	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fake	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the footprints				time	fake property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they found the tracks, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tracks	det
6	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	the tracks				bro vocative	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic

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