Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

the Pygmies think they're the smartest, innit

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smartest	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smartest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smartest	det
7	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 think	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 think	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the Pygmies						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Pygmies = pygmy					smart 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 they reckon the giant is well dim and needs them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 reckon	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dim	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckon	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dim	cop
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 dim	advmod
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dim	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	they	the giant		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent giant=Attribute
2	is	present			dim, well property	tree rules
3	need	present		them = they		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 2

yeah they think the cranes are their best mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 think	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cranes	det
5	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mates	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mates	cop
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 mates	amod
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the cranes	cranes's best mates					tree rules

Option 3

nah they never thought anything about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 thought	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 think speech: other	past	they	anything				about it	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme

Option 4

nah they reckon the giant is the smartest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 reckon	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smartest	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckon	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smartest	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smartest	det
8	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	they	the giant					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent giant=Attribute
2	is	present						smart property	tree rules

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