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title: bruh, what did the muskrat drop down Iktomi's throat? — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Mus… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what did the muskrat drop down Iktomi's throat? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

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bruh, what did the muskrat drop down Iktomi's throat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** muskrat · **What happens:** drop down · **To what, where:** throat

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t5:1
# text = bruh, what did the muskrat drop down Iktomi's throat?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop down** | past · do-support | the muskrat | Iktomi's throat |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme throat=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a small sharp bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t5:o1:1
# text = a small sharp bone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a thin hard stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t5:o2:1
# text = a thin hard stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a tiny sharp pebble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t5:o3:1
# text = a tiny sharp pebble
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a splinter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t5:o4:1
# text = a splinter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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