Exam question 3 · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…

Identify the lesson conveyed by the coyote's closing remark, and identify the speaker's intention in offering it.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, coyote, speaker · What happens: identify, convey, offer, remark, intend · To what, where: lesson, intention

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1267 «Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a peacock, then an arrow, then a fawn, and loses each chance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lesson	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 remark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coyote	det
7	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remark	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 coyote	case
9	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remark	compound
10	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 identify	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 identify	cc
13	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 speaker	det
15	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 intention	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 speaker	case
17	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 identify	obj
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 offering	mark
19	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 identify	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 offering	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the lesson		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme
2	convey	participle		the lesson not said here	by the coyote's closing remark	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	identify	infinitive		the speaker's intention		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent intention=Theme
4	offer	gerund		intention		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	remark		the coyote			nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	intend		the speaker			nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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

Be careful; warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 careful	cop
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warning	amod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 careful	punct
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						careful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Honor your friends; the speaker means to tease Iktomi for his boasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honor	honor	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Honor	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 speaker	det
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Honor	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tease	mark
9	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	xcomp
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tease	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 boasting	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boasting	nmod:poss
13	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tease	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	honor	imperative	you not said here	your friends		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	mean	present	the speaker			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tease not said to happen	to-infinitive	the speaker not said here	Iktomi	for speaker's boasting	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Patient

Option 3

Trust nothing; joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nothing	compound
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 joke	punct
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nothing	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not assume a foe is dead; the speaker intends to warn Iktomi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 assume	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 assume	advmod
3	assume	assume	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 foe	det
5	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assume	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 intends	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 speaker	det
10	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 intends	nsubj
11	intends	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assume	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 warn	mark
13	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 intends	xcomp
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not assume	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a foe		dead property	tree rules
3	intend	present	the speaker			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	warn speech: warn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the speaker not said here	Iktomi		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iktomi=Recipient

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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