Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…
wait, did the ducks peek during the eye dance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ducks · What happens: wait, do, peek
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ducks | det |
| 5 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peek | nsubj |
| 6 | peek | peek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 dance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dance | det |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dance | compound |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peek | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | peek | present | the ducks | during the eye dance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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
yeah, Skiska peeked first and warned the others about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 peeked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peeked | punct |
| 3 | Skiska | Skiska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 peeked | nsubj |
| 4 | peeked | peek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 peeked | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 warned | cc |
| 7 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 peeked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 others | det |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warned | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 others | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | past | Skiska | first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | Skiska not said here | the others | about it | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Recipient about it=Topic |
Option 2
nah, nobody peeked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 peeked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 peeked | nsubj |
| 4 | peeked | peek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | past | nobody | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, Kanka peeked first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 peeked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | Kanka | Kanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 peeked | nsubj |
| 4 | peeked | peek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 peeked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | past | Kanka | first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, Skiska peeked first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 peeked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | Skiska | Skiska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 peeked | nsubj |
| 4 | peeked | peek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 peeked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | past | Skiska | first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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