Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…
why'd the ducks even stop their dance to look?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ducks · What happens: stop, look, dance · To what, where: dance
This is test 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. 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stop | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ducks | det |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 stop | advmod |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stop | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the ducks | ducks's dance | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector dance=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the ducks not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dance | ducks = duck | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
they were curious about the bundle
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 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 curious | cop |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 bundle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bundle | det |
| 6 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curious | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | about the bundle; curious property | tree rules |
Option 2
they heard the bundle was gold
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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bundle | det |
| 4 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gold | cop |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | they | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the bundle | gold | tree rules |
Option 3
they were curious about the bundle and wanted to see what songs it held
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 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 curious | cop |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 bundle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bundle | det |
| 6 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curious | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 curious | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 songs | det |
| 12 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 songs | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | about the bundle; curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | they not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | what songs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | bundle | what songs not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
Option 4
they got bored of dancing and wanted to see the bundle up close
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dancing | case |
| 5 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bored | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | cc |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bundle | det |
| 11 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 close | advmod |
| 13 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 see | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | want | past | they not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | the bundle | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus |
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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