Test 7 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…
ngl the coyote totally played dead, right? What was in its paw?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, coyote · What happens: ngl, play, be · To what, where: coyote, dead, paw
This is test 7 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ngl the coyote totally played dead, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | ngl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coyote | det |
| 3 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ngl | obj |
| 4 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 played | advmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 coyote | acl:relcl |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 played | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 8 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 ngl | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | imperative | you not said here | the coyote | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | past | the coyote not said here | dead | totally property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=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.
Sentence 2: What was in its paw?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 paw | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paw | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 paw | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 paw | nmod:poss |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 paw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | coyote's paw | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a fresh rabbit tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | compound |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a fresh bird feather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feather | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | compound |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a bright blue bird feather torn from a hawk's wing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feather | amod |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feather | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feather | compound |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feather | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wing | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 hawk | case |
| 11 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 torn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | a bright blue bird feather not said here | a hawk's wing | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wing=Trajectory |
Option 4
a fresh bird feather stuck in its claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feather | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | compound |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feather | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 claws | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 claws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle | a fresh bird feather not said here | feather's claws | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in claw=Destination |
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