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title: lowkey iconic, what's a blue wink supposed to be? — Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Mus… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey iconic, what's a blue wink supposed to be? Test 9 · ★ 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 each
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# Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat: the sly muskra…

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lowkey iconic, what's a blue wink supposed to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, suppose · **To what, where:** blue wink

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t9:1
# text = lowkey iconic, what's a blue wink supposed to be?
1	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	iconic	iconic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a blue wink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  | a blue wink *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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a short blue glance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t9:o1:1
# text = a short blue glance
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a quick bluish blink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t9:o2:1
# text = a quick bluish blink
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bluish	bluish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blink	blink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bird's wink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t9:o3:1
# text = a bird's wink
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wink	wink	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 blue flash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1266-pg338-part3:t9:o4:1
# text = a blue flash
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flash	flash	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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**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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