Test 11 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

was the straw house gonna stay up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: straw house · What happens: be, stay up · To what, where: straw house

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 house	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	nsubj
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 stay	dep
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stay	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the straw house					tree rules
2	stay up	infinitive	the straw house						vn exist-47.1 «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

nope, the rain knocks it flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 knocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocks	nsubj
5	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knocks	obj
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knocks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	the rain	it				flat property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nope, the wind pulls it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 pulls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulls	nsubj
5	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulls	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 pulls	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	the wind	it					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

nope, it falls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 falls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yes, it stays up all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stays	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stays	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	present	it				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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