Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

bro, is it true the Giant got stronger after like ten steps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, Giant · What happens: be, get

This is test 10 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	ccomp
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 got	xcomp
10	after	after	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 steps	case
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 steps	nummod
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 after	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bro					true property	tree rules
2	get	past	the Giant					after, strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 text says ten times stronger each step, which is why it's so dangerous

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stronger	obl:unmarked
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 says	xcomp
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 why	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 why	cop
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 step	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dangerous	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dangerous	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 dangerous	advmod
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text	each step	strong property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	each step		why property	tree rules
3	is	present	text		dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, the text says he stays the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stays	nsubj
7	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	present	text	the same size					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the text says ten times stronger each step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stronger	obl:unmarked
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 says	ccomp
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text	each step					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

no, the text says he gets weaker each time he touches the ground and falls apart

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gets	xcomp
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touches	obl:unmarked
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touches	nsubj
12	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touches	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 falls	cc
16	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ground	conj
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	12 touches	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present	text			weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	touch	present	text	the ground and falls	time	apart property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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