Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

how come the Pygmy has to climb onto the giant's shoulder, why not shout from the ground

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Pygmy · What happens: come, have, climb, not shout · To what, where: shoulder, ground

This is test 13 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmy	det
4	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 climb	mark
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	xcomp
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 giant	case
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shout	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 shout	advmod
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 shout	advmod
16	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	the Pygmy		tree rules
3	climb	to-infinitive	the Pygmy not said here	the giant's shoulder	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto shoulder=Trajectory
4	not shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	the ground	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

cos the cranes are on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cranes	det
3	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ground	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ground	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	present	the cranes			the ground			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos the giant's ear is way too high up from the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	present	the giant's ear	way					tree rules

Option 3

cos the giant said to stand there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stand	mark
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cos the ground is too wet for shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wet	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 shouting	mark
8	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wet	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cos	infinitive	the ground		tree rules
2	is	present		wet property	tree rules
3	shout speech: express	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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