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title: Mega real, why was the whole village dumb? — Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mega real, why was the whole village dumb? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

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Mega real, why was the whole village dumb?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mega · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole village

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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/1271-pg338-part8/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t10:1
# text = Mega real, why was the whole village dumb?
1	Mega	Mega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mega | the whole village |  |  |  |  | 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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all the warriors had been told to stay inside the lodges that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t10:o1:1
# text = all the warriors had been told to stay inside the lodges that day
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lodges	lodge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | all warriors |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all warriors *not said here* |  |  | the lodges  that day |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lodge=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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everyone looked at the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t10:o2:1
# text = everyone looked at the sky
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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they were asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t10:o3:1
# text = they were asleep
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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nobody saw the arrow fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1271-pg338-part8:t10:o4:1
# text = nobody saw the arrow fly
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | nobody | the arrow fly |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |

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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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