Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

did Iktomi give the ducks a fair deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: give · To what, where: fair deal, ducks

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ducks	det
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Iktomi	a fair deal	the ducks				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient deal=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he tricked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

nope, he gave food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	food					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 3

nah, he tricked them into eating and dancing for his own gain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tricked	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dancing	cc
9	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 eating	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 gain	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gain	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gain	amod
13	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	eat	gerund	he not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dance	gerund	he not said here		for his own gain	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yes, he gave them fair shares of the meat and songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shares	amod
7	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 meat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meat	det
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shares	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 songs	cc
12	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shares	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	fair shares of the meat and songs	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient share=Theme
2	share			the meat					nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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