--- title: did Iktomi give the ducks a fair deal? — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Duc… · tree and pragmatics description: did Iktomi give the ducks a fair deal? Test 12 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1264-pg338-part1/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Duc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1264-pg338-part1/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t… did Iktomi give the ducks a fair deal? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** fair deal, ducks This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t12:1 # text = did Iktomi give the ducks a fair deal? 1 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 Iktomi Iktomi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · do-support | Iktomi | a fair deal | the ducks | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient deal=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} nah, he tricked them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t12:o1:1 # text = nah, he tricked them 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tricked trick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | past | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} nope, he gave food ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t12:o2:1 # text = nope, he gave food 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | he | food | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} nah, he tricked them into eating and dancing for his own gain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t12:o3:1 # text = nah, he tricked them into eating and dancing for his own gain 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tricked trick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 into into SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gain gain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | past | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dance** | gerund | he *not said here* | | | | | for his own gain | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} yes, he gave them fair shares of the meat and songs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t12:o4:1 # text = yes, he gave them fair shares of the meat and songs 1 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | he | fair shares of the meat and songs | them *= they* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient share=Theme | | 2 | **share** | | | the meat | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | **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. 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