Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…
bruh the Pygmies call the giant "poor creature" and stuff, that's cringe
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: call, be · To what, where: giant poor creature, cringe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 4 call | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pygmies | det |
| 3 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stuff | cc |
| 12 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 creature | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cringe | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 cringe | det |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cringe | cop |
| 16 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 creature | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Pygmies | the giant poor creature and stuff and that cringe | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Pygmies not said here | that cringe | 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
nah they totally hate him and want him gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hate | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 hate | advmod |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hate | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 want | cc |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 want | obj |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | they | him = he | totally property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | present | they not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | participle | him = he not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah they call him a genius all the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 call | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | they | him = he | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, but they love him really, he's their mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 love | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 love | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mate | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mate | cop |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | they | him = he | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | he | their mate | tree rules |
Option 4
nah they never said anything nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anything | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | they | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
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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