Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

wait so the mountain actually moved? that's proper mad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mountain, that · What happens: wait, move, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 moved	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 moved	advmod
6	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 mad	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	cop
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mad	amod
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	participle	the mountain	actually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	that	mad 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, and the Pygmy's like, wait, that's a person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wait	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pygmy	det
5	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 like	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Pygmy	case
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 wait	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 person	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 person	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 person	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	that	a person					tree rules

Option 2

yeah the mountain is a cloud, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cloud	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cloud	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cloud	punct
8	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	6 cloud	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the mountain	a cloud				obviously property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah then the giant got squished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 squished	discourse
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 squished	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squished	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 squished	aux:pass
6	squished	squish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squish	past · passive		the giant			then		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

nah it was a crane in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 crane	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crane	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crane	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crane	det
5	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 disguise	case
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crane	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a crane		disguise			tree rules

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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