Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

so like, where did Iktomi find that heavy stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Iktomi · What happens: like, find · To what, where: heavy stone

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	2 like	advmod
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 find	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	conj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stone	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	imperative	you not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	find	past · do-support	Iktomi	that heavy stone					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

half-buried in shallow water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 buried	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 half	punct
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				shallow water			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination

Option 2

half-hidden in muddy water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 hidden	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 half	punct
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				muddy water			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location

Option 3

half-buried in the shallow water near the edge of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 buried	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 half	punct
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				the shallow water		near the edge of the river	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination

Option 4

partly sunk near the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	partly	partly	ADV	_	2 sunk	advmod
2	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sunk	obl

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

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