Exam question 3 · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

Which creature first revealed the deception to the assembled ducks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: reveal, assemble · To what, where: deception, assembled ducks

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 revealed	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 revealed	advmod
4	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deception	det
6	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 revealed	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
9	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ducks	amod
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 revealed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 revealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	past	which creature	the deception	the assembled ducks			first property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent deception=Topic to duck=Recipient
2	assemble	participle							vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Skiska

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skiska	Skiska	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hinto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hinto	Hinto	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The wise old duck named Sapa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duck	acl
6	Sapa	Sapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the wise old duck not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Tanka

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tanka	Tanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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