Test 11 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

bro, what happened right when they got to Iktomi's place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, they · What happens: happen, get

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 place	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Iktomi	case
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	bro					right property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	they					to Iktomi's place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result

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

Iktomi tripped on a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	Iktomi			a stone			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory

Option 2

the coyote woke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coyote	det
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	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	wake	past	the coyote						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the coyote slipped out and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coyote	det
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 slipped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	past	the coyote						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	past	the coyote not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the coyote dropped to the dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coyote	det
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 dirt	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dirt	det
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the coyote			the dirt			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dirt=Trajectory

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