Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

wait, where did Antaeus's pine tree stick after his big swing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Antaeus · What happens: wait, do, swing · To what, where: pine tree stick

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stick	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Antaeus	case
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	compound
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 swing	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 swing	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 swing	amod
13	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	Antaeus's pine tree stick	after Antaeus's big swing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Eventuality
3	swing		Antaeus			nom swing «state intransitive»: poss=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

deep in the dirt beside the river, where the Pygmies had been hiding from him all along

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 dirt	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 dirt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dirt	det
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dirt	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hiding	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 hiding	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pygmies	det
11	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hiding	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hiding	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 hiding	aux
14	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 river	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hiding	obl
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 along	advmod
18	along	along	ADV	_	14 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · progressive	the Pygmies					from him = he; along property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

on the ground, right by his big feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feet	punct
5	right	right	ADV	_	9 feet	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 feet	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feet	amod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ground	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

deep in the dirt, too stuck to pull out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 dirt	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 dirt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dirt	det
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 stuck	advmod
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dirt	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pull	mark
9	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuck	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	to-infinitive							vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

deep in the dirt, too stuck to pull out, even though he pulled with all his mighty strength

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 dirt	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 dirt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dirt	det
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 stuck	advmod
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dirt	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pull	mark
9	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuck	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pull	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulled	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 pulled	advmod
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 pulled	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pulled	nsubj
15	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pull	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 strength	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 strength	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 strength	nmod:poss
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 strength	amod
20	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	to-infinitive							vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull	past	he					with his mighty strength	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with strength=Beneficiary

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