Test 4 · ★ · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…
lowkey, what was the peacock's one rule?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: one rule
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rule | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 rule | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rule | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peacock | det |
| 6 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rule | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 peacock | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rule | nummod |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lowkey | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lowkey | the peacock's one rule | 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 · ← Mova's choice
no flying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 flying | det |
| 2 | flying | flying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
no wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 wings | det |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
no eating or you turn to ash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 eating | det |
| 2 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 turn | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eating | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ash | mark |
| 7 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | you | ash | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
no flying or you go back to you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 flying | det |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flying | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go back | present | you | you | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1267-pg338-part4/t4/