Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

bet, what was the prize for the race again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bet · What happens: be · To what, where: prize

This is test 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. 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prize	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 prize	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prize	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bet	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 race	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 race	det
9	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prize	nmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 race	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bet and the prize	the prize				for the race	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

fish stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stew	nsubj
2	stew	stew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stew	present	fish						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a pot of dried 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	_	5 corn	case
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 corn	amod
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a plate of cooked roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plate	det
2	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 roots	amod
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a pot of boiled fish

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	_	5 fish	case
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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