Exam question 3 · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

What was the emotional response of the coyote when lifted upon Iktomi's shoulders?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, lift · To what, where: emotional response, shoulders

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1266 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskrat beats Iktomi in a race, then gets the last laugh» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	5 response	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 response	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 response	det
4	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 response	amod
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 coyote	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coyote	det
8	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 response	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lifted	advmod
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 response	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 shoulders	case
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Iktomi	case
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lifted	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the emotional response				of the coyote	tree rules
2	lift	participle				Iktomi's shoulders			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

delight and great pleasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pleasure	cc
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleasure	amod
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 delight	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

fear and great worry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 worry	cc
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worry	amod
4	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fear	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a deep delight and great pleasure, as if he were a proud warrior

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 delight	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 delight	amod
3	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pleasure	cc
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleasure	amod
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delight	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warrior	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 warrior	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 warrior	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 warrior	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 warrior	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 warrior	det
13	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warrior	amod
14	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a proud warrior					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

delight and great pleasure at being lifted high upon his shoulders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifted	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pleasure	cc
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleasure	amod
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 delight	conj
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 lifted	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lifted	aux:pass
7	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lifted	xcomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 shoulders	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund · passive		delight and great pleasure		his shoulders		high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon shoulder=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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