Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

salty Iktomi, what did he do after the coyote hit the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: salty Iktomi, coyote · What happens: do, hit · To what, where: ground

This is test 12 · ★ 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	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Iktomi	amod
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Iktomi	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 hit	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coyote	det
10	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hit	nsubj
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hit	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	salty Iktomi						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	hit	past	the coyote	the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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

danced around in a circle and gathered many sticks to build a big fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 danced	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 circle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 circle	det
5	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 danced	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gathered	cc
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 danced	conj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sticks	amod
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gathered	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 build	mark
11	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gathered	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fire	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fire	amod
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance around	participle		a circle	around property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
2	gather	past	many sticks			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	build	to-infinitive	a big fire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 2

laughed and lit a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lit	cc
3	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 laughed	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	light	past		a torch					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

danced and built a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 built	cc
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 danced	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	past		a fire					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 4

danced happily and then went out to gather dry wood for the evening fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	happily	happily	ADV	_	1 danced	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 danced	conj
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 gather	mark
8	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gather	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	compound
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gather	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past			happily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past		then	out property	tree rules
3	gather	to-infinitive	dry wood		for the evening fire	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for fire=Beneficiary

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