Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Magic Arrow, part 7: Iktomi tricks…

fr, what did the chief want the dude to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, chief, dude · What happens: do, want · To what, where: dude

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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 chief	det
6	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the chief	the dude	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dude not said here		vn act-114-1 «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

Find the red eagle nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nest	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nest	amod
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nest	compound
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	the red eagle nest					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kill the red eagle with the arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eagle	amod
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kill	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 arrow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arrow	det
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	the red eagle				with the arrow	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with arrow=Instrument

Option 3

Marry the chief's daughter now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chief	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marry	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the chief's daughter			now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 4

Go out and kill the red eagle with the magic arrow, then come back for his daughter's hand

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kill	cc
4	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eagle	amod
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 arrow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrow	det
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrow	amod
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 hand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hand	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 daughter	case
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kill	infinitive	you not said here	the red eagle		with the magic arrow	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient with arrow=Instrument
3	come back	infinitive	you not said here		then	for eagle's daughter's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1270-pg338-part7/t6/