Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

what if the stranger's a baddie, like how dare he walk up to them

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stranger, he · What happens: be, walk up · To what, where: baddie, dare, them

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2051 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a huge stranger coming and wakes the sleeping giant» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 baddie	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baddie	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 baddie	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baddie	det
7	baddie	baddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 walk	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 walk	advmod
11	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	nsubj
13	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 walk	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stranger	a baddie					tree rules
2	walk up	present	he	dare	them = they				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result

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 he's a hero, that's obvious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hero	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hero	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hero	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obvious	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 obvious	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 obvious	cop
9	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hero	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a hero					tree rules
2	is	present	that					obvious property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah the giant already knows him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 giant	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 knows	advmod
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 giant	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present		him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

nah the stranger is a Pygmy in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 Pygmy	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Pygmy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Pygmy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Pygmy	det
6	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Pygmy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stranger	a Pygmy		disguise			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that's what the Pygmy is worried about, so he wakes the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pygmy	det
5	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 worried	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worried	cop
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 what	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	7 worried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wakes	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 wakes	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wakes	nsubj
12	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 what	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that		tree rules
2	is	present	the Pygmy	worried property	tree rules
3	wake	present	he		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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