Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

what's up with the word sable, like sounds fancy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 up	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 up	cop
3	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 up	obl
7	sable	sable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sounds	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 sounds	case
10	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 word	conj
11	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with the word and sounds; up property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

it means black, it's old-school, like the black sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 school	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 school	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 school	cop
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 school	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sails	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 sails	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sails	det
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sails	amod
14	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 school	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					black property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	old school				like the black sails	tree rules

Option 2

it means black, I guess, like a colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 guess	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
6	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 colour	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 colour	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 colour	det
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guess	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					black property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	guess	present	I						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it means a kind of sea bird, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	compound
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	a kind of sea bird					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic
2	think speech: other	present	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it means black, it's old-school, and it's also a fur used for royal robes, which is why it sounds so fancy to us

The tree, 26 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 school	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 school	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 school	cop
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 school	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fur	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fur	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fur	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fur	cop
14	also	also	ADV	_	16 fur	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fur	det
16	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fur	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 robes	case
19	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 robes	amod
20	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 used	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 why	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	cop
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fur	acl:relcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sounds	nsubj
26	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	ccomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 fancy	advmod
28	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sounds	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fancy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it		black property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	old school		tree rules
3	is a	present	school	a fur		tree rules
4	use	participle		a fur not said here	for royal robes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	a fur		why property	tree rules
6	sound	present	school		fancy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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