Test 14 · ★ · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…

wait, why'd Iktomi yell I'm my old self again?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Iktomi, I · What happens: wait, yell, be · To what, where: old self · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yell	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 yell	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Iktomi	punct
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yell	nsubj
6	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 self	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 self	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 self	nmod:poss
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 self	amod
11	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yell	ccomp
12	again	again	ADV	_	6 yell	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	present	Iktomi		again	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	I	my old self		tree rules

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

cause he broke the rule and got changed back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 changed	cc
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	aux:pass
8	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 broke	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	cause	the rule					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
2	change back	past · passive	cause not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

because the fire burned his arms badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 burned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	obj
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 burned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the fire	fire's arms				badly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 3

he was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he lost the race to the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 race	det
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	the race				to the birds	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

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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