Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

bruh, how tiny were the Pygmies, for real

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Pygmies

This is test 3 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Pygmies	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pygmies	det
7	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 tiny	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Pygmies					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 · ← Mova's choice

like six inches or so, I think, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 inches	discourse
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 so	cc
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 inches	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 inches	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	six inches					for real	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

like six or eight inches if they were tall, and their houses were even smaller, deadass, lowkey

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	9 tall	discourse
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 eight	cc
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 six	conj
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tall	obl:unmarked
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tall	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tall	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smaller	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smaller	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 houses	nmod:poss
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 smaller	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 smaller	cop
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 smaller	advmod
16	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 tall	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deadass	punct
18	deadass	deadass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tall	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lowkey	punct
20	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	inches = inch					six inches obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	is	past	inches's houses					small property	tree rules

Option 3

like six or eight inches if they were tall, and they built their whole streets out of tiny pebbles, deadass

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	9 tall	discourse
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 eight	cc
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 six	conj
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 like	conj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tall	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tall	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 built	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 built	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 built	nsubj
13	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 streets	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 streets	amod
16	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 built	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 pebbles	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pebbles	case
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pebbles	amod
20	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 built	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deadass	punct
22	deadass	deadass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	inches = inch					tall property	tree rules
2	build	past	inches = inch	inches's whole streets		tiny pebbles			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset street=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

like six or eight inches if they were tall, deadass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	9 tall	discourse
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 eight	cc
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 six	conj
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tall	obl:unmarked
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tall	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tall	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deadass	punct
11	deadass	deadass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	inches = inch					six inches obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules

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