Test 5 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks…

ngl, what did Iktomi say about the buckskins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 buckskins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 buckskins	det
9	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Iktomi					about the buckskins; ngl vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

They might get torn up by branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 torn	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 torn	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 torn	aux:pass
4	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 torn	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 branches	case
7	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	might · passive	branches	They					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme

Option 2

They would get dirty from dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 dust	case
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They			dust		dirty property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from dust=Destination

Option 3

They could rip on the rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rip	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rip	aux
3	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip	could	They			the rocks			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They might get wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	They					wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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