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title: What was the precise consequence of the ducks' disobedience to the w… — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Duc… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the precise consequence of the ducks' disobedience to the warning of the minor strain? Exam question 2 of lesson 1264 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi tricks the ducks with a song, roasts them, and ignores a crying tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Exam question 2 · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

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What was the precise consequence of the ducks' disobedience to the warning of the minor strain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ducks · **What happens:** be, disobey, warn · **To what, where:** precise consequence, minor strain

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1264 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi tricks the ducks with a song, roasts them, and ignores a crying tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1264-pg338-part1/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:e2:1
# text = What was the precise consequence of the ducks' disobedience to the warning of the minor strain?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the precise consequence |  |  |  | of the ducks's disobedience to the warning of the minor strain | tree rules |
| 2 | **disobey** |  | the ducks |  |  |  |  | to the warning of the minor strain | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 3 | **warn** |  |  | the minor strain |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Their eyes became permanently red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:e2:o1:1
# text = Their eyes became permanently red
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Their eyes |  |  |  |  | permanently, red *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were tricked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:e2:o2:1
# text = They were tricked
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They fell asleep in the straw hut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:e2:o3:1
# text = They fell asleep in the straw hut
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | They |  |  | the straw hut |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They went blind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:e2:o4:1
# text = They went blind
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | They |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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