Test 15 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

ngl, who was the little guy in the story that kept nagging?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl, little guy · What happens: be, keep, nag · To what, where: little guy, story

This is test 15 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guy	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 guy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guy	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	acl:relcl
13	nagging	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the little guy	the story	tree rules
2	keep	past	the little guy			tree rules
3	nag	gerund	the little guy not said here			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

a tiny bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Pygmies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Pygmies, the tiny folks who yelled to wake up the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 yelled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pygmies	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 folks	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 folks	amod
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 yelled	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 yelled	nsubj
8	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wake	mark
10	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 yelled	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wake	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wake	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	the Pygmies						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wake up	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	the giant					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the lion, a small beast that roared all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beast	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beast	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beast	amod
6	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lion	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 roared	nsubj
8	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beast	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roared	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 roared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past	a small beast				day	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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