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title: What was the emotional response of the coyote when lifted upon Iktom… — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Mus… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the emotional response of the coyote when lifted upon Iktomi's shoulders? Exam question 3 of lesson 1266 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskrat beats Iktomi in a race, then gets the last laugh» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 3 · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

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What was the emotional response of the coyote when lifted upon Iktomi's shoulders?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, lift · **To what, where:** emotional response, shoulders

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1266 «Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskrat beats Iktomi in a race, then gets the last laugh» 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/1266-pg338-part3/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:e3:1
# text = What was the emotional response of the coyote when lifted upon Iktomi's shoulders?
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	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 emotional response |  |  |  | of the coyote | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | participle |  |  |  | Iktomi's shoulders |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Destination |

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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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delight and great pleasure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:e3:o1:1
# text = delight and great pleasure
1	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fear and great worry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:e3:o2:1
# text = fear and great worry
1	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a deep delight and great pleasure, as if he were a proud warrior

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:e3:o3:1
# text = a deep delight and great pleasure, as if he were a proud warrior
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | a proud warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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delight and great pleasure at being lifted high upon his shoulders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:e3:o4:1
# text = delight and great pleasure at being lifted high upon his shoulders
1	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund · passive |  | delight and great pleasure |  | his shoulders |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |

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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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