Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

wait, the Pygmies' houses were made of what, like stuff

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, make · To what, where: houses

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	8 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmies	det
4	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 houses	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Pygmies	case
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stuff	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl

#	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	make	past · passive		the Pygmies's houses				like stuff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

straw, feathers, egg shells and clay, all stuck together with tiny bits of mud and sticks, real talk

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feathers	punct
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shells	punct
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shells	compound
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clay	cc
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 talk	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 talk	det
11	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 all	acl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 bits	case
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bits	amod
15	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stuck	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 mud	case
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bits	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sticks	cc
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mud	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 talk	punct
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 talk	amod
22	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick together	participle						with tiny bits of mud and sticks; together property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bit=Instrument

Option 2

straw and mud, with some bits of shell, idk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mud	cc
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bits	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bits	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bits	det
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 shell	case
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 idk	punct
11	idk	idk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

straw, feathers, egg shells and clay, but the walls were built so high that the Giant could not see inside, real talk

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feathers	punct
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shells	punct
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shells	compound
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clay	cc
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 built	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 built	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 built	aux:pass
14	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 straw	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 high	advmod
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 built	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Giant	det
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 high	advcl
23	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 see	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talk	punct
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 talk	amod
26	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the walls				high property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not see	could	the Giant					inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

straw, feathers, egg shells and clay, real talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feathers	punct
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shells	punct
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shells	compound
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 straw	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clay	cc
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straw	parataxis

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

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