Test 7 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

So what'd the people do after the eagle dropped?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, drop · To what, where: eagle

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 'd	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 'd	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 'd	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 eagle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eagle	det
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eagle	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the people				after the eagle		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	participle		the eagle not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

threw a huge party, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 party	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 party	amod
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		a huge party and dude					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

Option 2

they had a big dance, dude

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dance	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dance	amod
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a big dance and dude					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient

Option 3

ate some stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 stew	det
3	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		some stew					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they cheered for him, dude

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	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they	dude				for him = he	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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