Test 10 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

Mega real, why was the whole village dumb?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mega · What happens: be · To what, where: whole village

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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	Mega	Mega	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 village	nsubj
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mega	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mega	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Mega	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 village	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 village	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mega	the whole village					tree rules

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

all the warriors had been told to stay inside the lodges that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 warriors	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warriors	det
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 lodges	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lodges	det
11	lodges	lodge	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lodges	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		all warriors					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	all warriors not said here			the lodges that day			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lodge=Location

Option 2

everyone looked at the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	everyone					at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme

Option 3

they were asleep

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 asleep	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					asleep property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nobody saw the arrow fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fly	det
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	compound
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody	the arrow fly					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus

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