Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

tbh, why didn't the Giant just stay on the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stay · To what, where: ground

This is test 12 · ★ 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	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	9 stay	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 tbh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stay	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Giant	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	xcomp
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 stay	advmod
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support				the ground		tbh property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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

he was lazy but he had to fight the stranger, since the Pygmies kept shouting at him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 kept	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pygmies	det
14	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	conj
16	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 kept	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		lazy property	tree rules
2	have	past	he			tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive	he not said here	the stranger		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent
4	keep	past	the Pygmies			tree rules
5	shout speech: express	gerund	the Pygmies not said here		at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he was too proud to let the stranger pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		proud property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	he not said here	the stranger		tree rules
3	pass	infinitive	the stranger not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he was afraid of the Pygmies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Pygmies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pygmies	det
6	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the Pygmies; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was lazy but he had to fight the stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		lazy property	tree rules
2	have	past	he			tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive	he not said here	the stranger		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent

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