Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

honestly, did that squeaky tree actually fall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squeaky tree · What happens: fall

This is test 8 · ★ 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 honestly	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tree	det
5	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · do-support	that squeaky tree					actually, honestly property	vn occur-48.3 «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

nope, it kept on standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 standing	case
6	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			standing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on standing=Location

Option 2

nope, it just kept crying for help and never fell down at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 fell	advmod
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund			for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
3	not fall down	past		all	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, it just kept crying for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund						for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, it fell down at last after crying for help all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 crying	mark
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fell	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 help	case
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crying	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	it			last		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund					night	for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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