Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…
bro, who was the dude in the golden helmet, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: dude, golden helmet
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dude | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dude | det |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 helmet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 helmet | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 helmet | amod |
| 10 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dude | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fr | punct |
| 12 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helmet | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bro | the dude | the golden helmet and fr | tree rules |
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
the Giant Antaeus, big and mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Antaeus | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Antaeus | amod |
| 3 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Antaeus | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mean | cc |
| 7 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a Pygmy king with a golden crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | Pygmy | pygmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 crown | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crown | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | amod |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
some dude named Zeus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 dude | det |
| 2 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dude | acl |
| 4 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | some dude not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hercules, the hero with the lion skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hero | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hercules | appos |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | compound |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hero | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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