Test 9 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…
Hii ni noma, what made the slaves run away from the Nunda?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hii ni noma, slaves · What happens: make, run away · To what, where: Nunda
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Hii | Hii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noma | compound |
| 2 | ni | ni | X | _ | 3 noma | compound |
| 3 | noma | noma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slaves | det |
| 8 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 run | nsubj |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Nunda | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Nunda | det |
| 13 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 run | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Hii ni noma | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | run away | present | the slaves | the Nunda | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nunda=Trajectory |
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
The spears scared them off, fam, they ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spears | det |
| 2 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scared | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 scared | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fam | punct |
| 7 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare off | past | the spears | them = they | fam obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | run | past | spears = spear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The spears had done the work and the slaves got scared when the Nunda roared at them all
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spears | det |
| 2 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slaves | det |
| 9 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 roared | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Nunda | det |
| 14 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 roared | nsubj |
| 15 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 roared | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 them | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | the spears | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the slaves | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | roar | past | the Nunda | slaves = slave | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The spears did it, so they ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spears | det |
| 2 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the spears | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | spears = spear | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The spears had done the work, and they got scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spears | det |
| 2 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | the spears | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | spears = spear | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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