Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the b…

dude, what did the bear call out when the fawn buried Iktomi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear, fawn · What happens: call out, bury · To what, where: Iktomi

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1268 «Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, part 1: the bear begs for meat, then drives the badger family out of their home» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 call	compound:prt
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 buried	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fawn	det
11	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buried	nsubj
12	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	advcl
13	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 buried	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past · do-support	the bear						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	bury	past	the fawn	Iktomi					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=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 · ← Mova's choice

"Black spots to wear for a day!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct
2	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spots	amod
3	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear in a quote	to-infinitive	Black spots				day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Brown, brown spots to wear forever!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wear	punct
2	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spots	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brown	punct
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spots	amod
5	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wear	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wear	mark
7	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 wear	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 wear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear in a quote	to-infinitive	Brown brown spots					forever property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

"Forever brown!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brown	punct
2	Forever	forever	ADV	_	3 brown	advmod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 brown	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brown	punct

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

Option 4

"Red spots for all of you now!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spots	punct
2	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spots	amod
3	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spots	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 all	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 spots	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spots	punct

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

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