Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

did the cranes eat any Pygmies in this bit, like proper gross

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cranes · What happens: eat · To what, where: Pygmies, bit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cranes	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cranes	det
3	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 Pygmies	det
6	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bit	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gross	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 gross	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gross	amod
13	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the cranes	any Pygmies		this bit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Patient

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

nah, this bit is about the stranger, the cranes come up earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 stranger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stranger	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stranger	cop
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 stranger	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cranes	det
11	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this bit					about the stranger	tree rules
2	come up	present	the cranes					early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah the cranes got stuck in the giant's beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cranes	det
3	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stuck	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 beard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl

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

Option 3

yeah, the stranger ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the stranger	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, one got swallowed whole right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 swallowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swallowed	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 swallowed	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swallowed	aux:pass
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swallowed	xcomp
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 now	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 swallowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past · passive		one			now	whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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