Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

wait, the Giant could blow ships away with his breath?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Giant · What happens: wait, blow away · To what, where: ships

This is test 13 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blow	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blow	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 breath	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breath	nmod:poss
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow away	could	the Giant	ships				with his breath; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, just a little wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 wind	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wind	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wind	amod
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, with the tornado of his breath, he could strip roofs, bro

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 strip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tornado	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 tornado	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tornado	det
5	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yeah	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 breath	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breath	nmod:poss
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tornado	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strip	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strip	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 strip	aux
12	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strip	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roofs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strip	could	he	roofs and bro					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient

Option 3

yeah, his breath could blow boats off course, kinda, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blow	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 course	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kinda	punct
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	could	his breath	boats				off course; kinda property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient off course=Co-Patient

Option 4

yep, his breath was strong enough to move boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	advcl
10	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his breath					enough, strong property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	his breath not said here	boats					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

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