Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

honestly the giant laughs so hard it's like a storm, right

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, it · What happens: laugh, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 laughs	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughs	nsubj
4	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 laughs	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 storm	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 storm	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 storm	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 storm	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 laughs	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the giant					hard, honestly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					like a storm	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

nah the Pygmies laugh louder than him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laugh	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pygmies	det
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 laugh	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 louder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the Pygmies					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah the giant cries like a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cries	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cries	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cries	amod
4	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 baby	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cries	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he sneezes when he laughs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sneezes	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sneezes	nsubj
3	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 laughs	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughs	nsubj
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sneezes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	present	he						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	present	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it's immeasurable, the Pygmies have to cover their ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 immeasurable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 immeasurable	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 immeasurable	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 immeasurable	cop
5	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pygmies	det
8	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 immeasurable	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cover	mark
11	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		immeasurable property	tree rules
2	have	present	the Pygmies			tree rules
3	cover	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	Pygmies's ears		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination

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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