Test 5 · ★ · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…

bruh, which bird crashed the rule and flew off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: crash, fly off · To what, where: rule

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 crashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crashed	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crashed	nsubj
5	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rule	det
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crashed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crashed	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	which bird	the rule					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
2	fly off	past	which bird not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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

the brave eagle who is Coyote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Coyote	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Coyote	cop
6	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eagle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the brave eagle	Coyote					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the vain peacock who used to be Iktomi and who now wants the open sky

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peacock	det
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peacock	amod
3	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 used	nsubj
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peacock	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 Iktomi	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 Iktomi	cop
8	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 used	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wants	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wants	nsubj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wants	advmod
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 used	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sky	amod
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	use	past	the vain peacock			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		Iktomi		tree rules
3	want	present		the open sky	now	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sky=Theme

Option 3

the big flock leader who was once a vain peacock and is secretly Iktomi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leader	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leader	amod
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leader	compound
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peacock	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 peacock	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 peacock	cop
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 peacock	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 peacock	det
9	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 peacock	amod
10	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Iktomi	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Iktomi	cop
13	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	14 Iktomi	advmod
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 peacock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the big flock leader	a vain peacock and Iktomi				once property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the big flock leader not said here	Iktomi				secretly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the vain peacock who is Iktomi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peacock	det
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peacock	amod
3	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Iktomi	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Iktomi	cop
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 peacock	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the vain peacock	Iktomi					tree rules

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