Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

so is Antaeus a huge mega unit or what

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Antaeus

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 Antaeus	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Antaeus	cop
3	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 unit	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 unit	amod
6	mega	mega	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unit	compound
7	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Antaeus	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 unit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Antaeus					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

yep, a giant who walks with a tree for a cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 giant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walks	advcl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 walks	nsubj
6	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walks	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 cane	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cane	det
12	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present						with a tree; for a cane	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yep, he's a mountain of a dude who blows tornadoes out of his mouth and sleeps under a pine tree stick

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 mountain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mountain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mountain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dude	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dude	det
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountain	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 blows	nsubj
11	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dude	acl:relcl
12	tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blows	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blows	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleeps	cc
18	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blows	conj
19	under	under	ADP	_	23 stick	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stick	det
21	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stick	compound
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a mountain		of a dude	tree rules
2	blow	present	a dude	tornadoes	his mouth		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tornado=Patient
3	sleep	present	a dude not said here		a tree stick		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he's a giant with a pine tree as his walking stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 giant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giant	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giant	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 stick	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stick	nmod:poss
13	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stick	compound
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					with a pine tree; as his walking stick; giant property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he's a mountain of a dude with a pine tree stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 mountain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mountain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mountain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dude	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dude	det
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountain	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 stick	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stick	det
12	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stick	compound
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a mountain				of a dude; with a tree stick	tree rules

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