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title: lol, what did Iktomi ask the big fawn? — Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: I… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol, what did Iktomi ask the big fawn? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1267 «Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a peacock, then an arrow, then a fawn, and loses each chance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a p…

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lol, what did Iktomi ask the big fawn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Iktomi · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** big fawn

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1267 «Iktomi, Iktomi and the Fawn, part 2: Iktomi begs to be a peacock, then an arrow, then a fawn, and loses each chance» 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/1267-pg338-part4/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1267-pg338-part4:t11:1
# text = lol, what did Iktomi ask the big fawn?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | Iktomi | the big fawn |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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its name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1267-pg338-part4:t11:o1:1
# text = its name
1	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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how the brown spots got on its face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1267-pg338-part4:t11:o2:1
# text = how the brown spots got on its face
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the brown spots |  |  | its face |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on face=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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why its ears are so long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1267-pg338-part4:t11:o3:1
# text = why its ears are so long
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | its ears |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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where the fawn sleeps at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1267-pg338-part4:t11:o4:1
# text = where the fawn sleeps at night
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | the fawn |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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