Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

so what did the muskrat tell him to say next time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: muskrat · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	6 tell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 muskrat	det
5	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the muskrat		him = he				tree rules
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the muskrat not said here				time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

be seated, let me share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 seated	aux:pass
2	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 let	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seat	infinitive · passive	you not said here		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»
2	let	imperative	you not said here	me	tree rules
3	share	infinitive	me not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

be seated beside me, friend, and let me share my food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 seated	aux:pass
2	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 let	advcl
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seated	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod:poss
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seat	infinitive · passive	you not said here	friend	beside me	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»
2	let	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	share	infinitive	me not said here	my food		tree rules

Option 3

sit and eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 eat	cc
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 sit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

sit down, let me give

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 sit	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me	tree rules
3	give	infinitive	me not said here		vn break_down-45.8 «NP 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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