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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

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Okay, how did Ball-Carrier beat her finally?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ball · **What happens:** beat

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1211-pg3282-part12/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t4:1
# text = Okay, how did Ball-Carrier beat her finally?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past · do-support | Ball and Carrier |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He changed into a fast hawk and flew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = He changed into a fast hawk and flew
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | He |  |  |  |  | into a fast hawk *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hawk=Result |
| 2 | **fly** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He first turned into a wolf, then an elk, then finally a humming bird and zoomed past her

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = He first turned into a wolf, then an elk, then finally a humming bird and zoomed past her
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	zoomed	zoom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	past	past	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | He | a elk |  | a wolf |  | a humming bird *obl*; first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wolf=Trajectory |
| 2 | **zoom** | past | He *not said here* | bird |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location her=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He shifted to a wolf and ran fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = He shifted to a wolf and ran fast
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shifted	shift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shift** | past | He |  |  |  |  | to a wolf *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wolf=Result |
| 2 | **run** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He turned into a humming bird and zoomed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = He turned into a humming bird and zoomed
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	zoomed	zoom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | He |  |  |  |  | into a humming bird *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result |
| 2 | **zoom** | participle | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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