Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

yo, did Antaeus hit his mum the Earth by accident?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: do, hit · To what, where: mum

This is test 13 · ★ 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	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 accident	case
11	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	hit	past	Antaeus	Antaeus's mum				by accident	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient earth=Result

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

yes, he struck her and she groaned and trembled, which made the whole valley shake

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 struck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 groaned	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 groaned	nsubj
8	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trembled	cc
10	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 trembled	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 valley	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 valley	amod
16	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trembled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	strike	past	he	her = she	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
2	groan	past	she		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tremble	past	he not said here		tree rules
4	make	past		the whole valley	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product
5	shake	infinitive	he not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

no, he struck the lion and the lion groaned, while his mother the Earth trembled only a little bit

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 struck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 groaned	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 groaned	nsubj
10	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trembled	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 trembled	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trembled	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mother	appos
17	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 bit	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bit	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bit	amod
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trembled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	strike	past	he	the lion	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent lion=Instrument
2	groan	past	the lion		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tremble	past	lion's mother	a little bit	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no, he struck the Pygmies and they wailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 struck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pygmies	det
6	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 struck	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wailed	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wailed	nsubj
9	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	he	the Pygmies					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Patient
2	wail	past	Pygmies = pygmy						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yes, he struck her and she groaned and trembled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 struck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 groaned	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 groaned	nsubj
8	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trembled	cc
10	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	strike	past	he	her = she	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
2	groan	past	she		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tremble	past	he not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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