Test 11 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, the tree, the wo…

and Iktomi was hungry and never had regular meals, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: regular meals

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1265 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, the tree, the wolves and the blanket» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hungry	cc
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
8	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meals	amod
9	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	4 hungry	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Iktomi					hungry property	tree rules
2	not have	past	Iktomi not said here	regular meals					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he ate when he was hungry, sometimes not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 hungry	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hungry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 all	advmod
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 all	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he had plenty of food every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plenty	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	plenty of food			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he ate whenever he got something, but often nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 got	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 nothing	cc
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 nothing	advmod
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	he	something				whenever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, he had no regular meals at all, and he often went hungry for days while begging food from others

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 meals	det
6	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meals	amod
7	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 begging	mark
19	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begging	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 others	case
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no regular meals	all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	go	past	he			day	hungry, often property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	gerund	he not said here	food	others			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent food=Recipient

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