Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

is the stranger bigger than the giant or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stranger

This is test 7 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stranger	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 stranger	amod
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 giant	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bigger	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 giant	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the stranger					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

yeah the stranger is tiny like a Pygmy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 Pygmy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Pygmy	det
8	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stranger					like a Pygmy; tiny property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah the stranger is massive, bigger than Antaeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 massive	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 massive	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	cop
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 massive	parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Antaeus	case
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stranger					massive property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, not as big as Antaeus, but way bigger than us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 big	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 Antaeus	case
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 big	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 way	cc
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	parataxis
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 way	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bigger	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

nah they're both exactly the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 both	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 both	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 both	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 size	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 size	amod
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 both	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					both property	tree rules

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