Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

yo, why did Antaeus get stronger every time he touched the ground?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: get, touch · To what, where: ground

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2052 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights the giant Antaeus and knocks him down» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Antaeus				time	strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	touch	past	Antaeus	the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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

cuz he was a god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 god	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 god	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 god	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 god	det
5	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cuz Mama Earth was his mum and she hooked him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nsubj
2	Mama	Mama	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	flat
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hooked	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hooked	nsubj
9	hooked	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hooked	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 hooked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cuz	cuz's mum					tree rules
2	hook up	past	she	cuz					tree rules

Option 3

cuz he drank the magic river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	compound
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	cuz	the magic river					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cuz he had a magic pine tree that glows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 glows	nsubj
9	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tree	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cuz	a magic pine tree					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	glow	present	a magic pine tree						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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