Test 14 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

so what was Iktomi's big plan for dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 14 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 plan	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Iktomi	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Iktomi's big plan				for dinner	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 · ← Mova's choice

a thick soup of coyote meat and roots boiled for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soup	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soup	amod
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
5	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	compound
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soup	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 roots	cc
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meat	conj
9	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soup	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle		a thick soup of coyote meat and roots not said here			time		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a pot of corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 corn	case
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

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

Option 3

some fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a roast of coyote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roast	det
2	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coyote	case
4	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roast	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.

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