Test 13 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks…

was Iktomi laughing a lot, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: laugh · To what, where: lot

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1270 «Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks the avenger into the tree» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	nsubj
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	Iktomi	a lot					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he laughed loud and often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 often	cc
7	often	often	ADV	_	4 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, he stayed very quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, he kept quiet and serious the whole time, only grinning once when the bird finished its song

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 serious	cc
7	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quiet	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grinning	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 grinning	advmod
13	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 grinning	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 finished	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finished	nsubj
18	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grinning	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 song	nmod:poss
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		time	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grin	gerund	he not said here			once property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	finish	past	the bird	bird's song			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality
4	sing		bird				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, he laughed loudly and often, slapping his knees and pointing at the young man in the tree as the sun went down

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 often	cc
7	often	often	ADV	_	5 loudly	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slapping	punct
9	slapping	slap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughed	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slapping	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pointing	cc
13	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 slapping	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pointing	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 went	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pointing	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he		loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slap	gerund	he not said here	his knees		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient
3	point	gerund	he not said here		at the young man in the tree	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go down	past	the sun		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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