Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…
lowkey iconic, what's a blue wink supposed to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: blue wink
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 2 iconic | advmod |
| 2 | iconic | iconic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wink | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 wink | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wink | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wink | det |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wink | amod |
| 8 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 iconic | conj |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wink | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 supposed | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 iconic | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a blue wink | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | a blue wink not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a short blue glance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glance | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glance | amod |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glance | amod |
| 4 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a quick bluish blink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 blink | det |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blink | amod |
| 3 | bluish | bluish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blink | amod |
| 4 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a bird's wink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wink | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a blue flash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flash | amod |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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