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title: Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like? — Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 6 · ★ · Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his peo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1795-pg641-part46/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1795-pg641-part46:t6:1
# text = Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like?
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mama	mama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Big ears and stripes like a zebra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1795-pg641-part46:t6:o1:1
# text = Big ears and stripes like a zebra
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Small ears, spots like a civet-cat, and a tail as long as a camel's neck

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1795-pg641-part46:t6:o2:1
# text = Small ears, spots like a civet-cat, and a tail as long as a camel's neck
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	civet	civet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Huge ears and black stripes all over, like a zebra mixed with a big hyena and a lion

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1795-pg641-part46:t6:o3:1
# text = Huge ears and black stripes all over, like a zebra mixed with a big hyena and a lion
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Small ears and spots like a civet-cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1795-pg641-part46:t6:o4:1
# text = Small ears and spots like a civet-cat
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	civet	civet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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