Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

yo, did u see Theseus? his dad jumped off a cliff, no cap

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, dad · What happens: see, jump off · To what, where: Theseus, cliff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2050 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home to grief, and the Giant Antaeus is introduced as friend of the Pygmies» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 jumped	advcl
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumped	nsubj
10	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 jumped	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cliff	det
13	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumped	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cliff	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	u	Theseus					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer theseus=Stimulus
2	jump off	past	Theseus's dad	a cliff					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory

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

Option 1

yeah, he's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, dude, the sails were still black, so his dad thought he was dead

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 dude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dude	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sails	det
6	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 black	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 black	advmod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 thought	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 black	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dead	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dude	still	black property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	his dad			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dad		dead property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he forgot the sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sails	det
6	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	the sails					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the ship came back with black sails so dad jumped off a cliff

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sails	case
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sails	amod
9	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 jumped	mark
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	nsubj
12	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 jumped	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cliff	det
15	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the ship					with black sails	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jump off	past	dad	a cliff					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory

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