Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

the giant said it's funny to be little, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 little	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 little	cop
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 funny	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	6 funny	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	giant	funny property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive		little property	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he'd like to be a Pygmy just for the joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 like	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 Pygmy	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Pygmy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Pygmy	det
9	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	xcomp
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 joke	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	he					for the joke	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for joke=Attribute
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a Pygmy					tree rules

Option 2

nah he said he'd like to be a crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	10 crane	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 crane	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crane	det
10	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	would	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	to-infinitive		a crane	tree rules

Option 3

yeah he said being little is a total bore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 little	cop
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bore	amod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bore	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bore	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bore	amod
9	bore	bore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund			little property	tree rules
3	is a	present		a little total bore		tree rules

Option 4

nah he never said anything about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 said	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	he	anything				about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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