Test 10 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…
fr, what did the coyote think being carried was like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, think, be · To what, where: coyote
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 fr | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coyote | det |
| 6 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 like | amod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | cop |
| 11 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 think | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | the coyote | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | fr | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund · passive | carry property | tree rules |
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
a great delight, like a warrior who had won a brave battle
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 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 delight | amod |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warrior | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 warrior | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 warrior | det |
| 7 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delight | appos |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 won | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 won | aux |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 battle | det |
| 12 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 battle | amod |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect | a warrior | a brave battle | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
great fun like a warrior
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fun | amod |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 warrior | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fun | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
great joy like a chief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 joy | amod |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
fun like a hero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 hero | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fun | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1266-pg338-part3/t10/