Test 8 · ★ · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…

haha, what did the arrow tap him with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: arrow · What happens: do, tap · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ 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	haha	haha	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 haha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arrow	det
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tap	nsubj
7	tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tap	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	7 tap	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	tap	present	the arrow	him = he					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location

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 stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a long wooden staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 staff	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 staff	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 staff	amod
4	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a feathered fan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fan	det
2	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fan	amod
3	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sharp flint beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beak	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beak	amod
3	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beak	compound
4	beak	beak	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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