Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

lol why does Iktomi have no friends at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: have · To what, where: friends, all

This is test 9 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 friends	det
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 friends	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	Iktomi	no friends		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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

because he lies, is naughty and vain and never shares his food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 lies	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 naughty	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 naughty	cop
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 vain	cc
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 naughty	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shares	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shares	advmod
11	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 naughty	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod:poss
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shares	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present	he			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			naughty property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	not share	present		his food		tree rules

Option 2

he's lazy and very greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lazy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 greedy	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 greedy	advmod
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					lazy property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause he's naughty and vain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 naughty	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	cop
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 vain	cc
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 naughty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					naughty property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

cause he's naughty and vain and always tricks everyone around him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 naughty	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	cop
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 vain	cc
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 naughty	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tricks	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 tricks	advmod
9	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	conj
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 tricks	obj
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tricks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	he		naughty property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	trick	present	he not said here	everyone	around him = he; always property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

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