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title: bro, what did Iktomi cook the ducks on? — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Duc… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did Iktomi cook the ducks on? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, part 1: Iktomi t…

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bro, what did Iktomi cook the ducks on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** cook on · **To what, where:** ducks

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t6:1
# text = bro, what did Iktomi cook the ducks on?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook on** | past · do-support | Iktomi | the ducks |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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on a metal grill inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t6:o1:1
# text = on a metal grill inside
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	grill	grill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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on hot coals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t6:o2:1
# text = on hot coals
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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on the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t6:o3:1
# text = on the fire
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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sharp sticks over the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1264-pg338-part1:t6:o4:1
# text = sharp sticks over the fire
1	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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