Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…
did Antaeus ever squash the Pygmies, though
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: squash · To what, where: Pygmies
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 squash | aux |
| 2 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 squash | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 squash | advmod |
| 4 | squash | squash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pygmies | det |
| 6 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squash | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 squash | punct |
| 8 | though | though | ADV | _ | 4 squash | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | past · do-support | Antaeus | the Pygmies | ever | though property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was chill and never wanted to hurt them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 wanted | advmod |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hurt | mark |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | chill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not want | past | he not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | them = they | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, he stomped on them once in a while
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stomped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stomped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stomped | nsubj |
| 4 | stomped | stomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stomped | obl |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 stomped | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stomped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stomp | past | he | while | on them = they; once property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
Option 3
nah, he was chill, but he did sometimes blow their roofs off with his breath just to see them scatter
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 blow | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | aux |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 blow | advmod |
| 11 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chill | parataxis |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 roofs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blow | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 blow | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 breath | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | obl |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | chill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow off | past · do-support | he | their roofs | with his breath; off, sometimes property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | roofs = roof | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | scatter | infinitive | roofs = roof not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
yes, he stepped on a few by accident
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 stepped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 few | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 few | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stepped | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | he | a few | by accident | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on few=Trajectory |
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