Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, the tree, the wo…

lol did Iktomi, like, trick them with the ashes thing or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, trick · To what, where: Iktomi, them

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 trick	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trick	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 thing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thing	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Iktomi					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Eventuality
2	trick	infinitive		them = they				with the ashes thing	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

Nope, he just yelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yelled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 yelled	advmod
5	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he just burned the ducks and the wolves ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 burned	advmod
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ducks	det
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burned	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	he	the ducks					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
2	run off	past	the wolves						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he lied about more ducks and the wolves dug them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lied	nsubj
4	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 ducks	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ducks	amod
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dug	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dug	nsubj
11	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lied	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dug	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 dug	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he					about more ducks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about duck=Location
2	dig out	past	the wolves	ducks = duck					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Yep, he said more ducks were there, so they dug and ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ducks	amod
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dug	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 dug	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dug	nsubj
12	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dug	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	more ducks	there property	tree rules
3	dig	past	ducks = duck		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	ducks = duck not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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