Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

bro, what did Iktomi cook the ducks on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: cook on · To what, where: ducks

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 cook	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	aux
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nsubj
6	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ducks	det
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cook	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	6 cook	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook on	past · do-support	Iktomi	the ducks				bro vocative	tree rules

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

on a metal grill inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 grill	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grill	det
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grill	compound
4	grill	grill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 grill	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

on hot coals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 coals	case
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coals	amod
3	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

on the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sharp sticks over the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sticks	amod
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sticks	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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