Test 5 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

so what did the ducks yell when they flew off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ducks · What happens: yell, fly off

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 yell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 yell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ducks	det
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yell	nsubj
6	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 flew	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yell	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · do-support	the ducks						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	fly off	past	ducks = duck						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

"Iktomi is a liar!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 liar	punct
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 liar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 liar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 liar	det
5	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 liar	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 liar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Iktomi	a liar					tree rules

Option 2

"Your eyes are red-red, bye bye Iktomi!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 red	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bye	punct
9	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	conj
10	bye	bye	ADP	_	11 Iktomi	case
11	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 red	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your eyes					bye Iktomi; red property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Your eyes not said here						tree rules

Option 3

"Goodbye, we'll see you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
2	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Goodbye	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	we	you				Goodbye vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Your eyes are red-red!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 red	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your eyes					red property	tree rules

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