Exam question 2 · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

What was the precise consequence of the ducks' disobedience to the warning of the minor strain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ducks · What happens: be, disobey, warn · To what, where: precise consequence, minor strain

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1264 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi tricks the ducks with a song, roasts them, and ignores a crying tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 disobedience	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ducks	det
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disobedience	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 ducks	case
10	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 warning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 warning	det
13	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disobedience	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 strain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strain	det
16	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 strain	amod
17	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warning	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the precise consequence	of the ducks's disobedience to the warning of the minor strain	tree rules
2	disobey		the ducks		to the warning of the minor strain	nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
3	warn			the minor strain		nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

Their eyes became permanently red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Their eyes					permanently, red property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They were tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux:pass
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		They					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They fell asleep in the straw hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hut	compound
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	They			the straw hut		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

Option 4

They went blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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