Test 7 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

what were the seashells even for, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: seashells

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 seashells	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seashells	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seashells	det
4	seashells	seashell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 for	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	4 seashells	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	4 seashells	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seashells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the seashells					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 · ← Mova's choice

they were plates for the fat drained from the ducks

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 plates	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plates	cop
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 fat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fat	det
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plates	nmod
7	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plates	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	plates				for the fat	tree rules
2	drain	participle		plates not said here				from the ducks	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from duck=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they were plates for the fat

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 plates	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plates	cop
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 fat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fat	det
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plates	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	plates				for the fat	tree rules

Option 3

they held the cooked meat

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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meat	det
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meat	amod
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	they	the cooked meat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
2	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

they were for the soup

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 were	nsubj
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 soup	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soup	det
5	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	they					for the soup	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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