Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 11: Hercules fights th…

yo, what bugged the Giant about the stranger's shoulders?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bug · To what, where: Giant

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	4 bugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 bugged	nsubj
4	bugged	bug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bugged	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 shoulders	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stranger	det
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 stranger	case
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Giant	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bugged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bug	past		the Giant					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus giant=Experiencer

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

they were broader than his own, and that stung his pride more than anything else

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broader	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broader	cop
3	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broader	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stung	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stung	nsubj
10	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broader	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pride	nmod:poss
12	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stung	obj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 stung	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 anything	case
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 more	obl
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 anything	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		than his own; broad property	tree rules
2	sting	past	that	his pride		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pride=Experiencer
3	pride		his = he			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they were broader than his own, and that stung

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broader	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broader	cop
3	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broader	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stung	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stung	nsubj
10	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broader	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					than his own; broad property	tree rules
2	sting	past	that						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they were broader than his own, and the Pygmies had teased him about that very thing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broader	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broader	cop
3	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broader	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teased	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 teased	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pygmies	det
10	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 teased	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 teased	aux
12	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 broader	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 teased	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 thing	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thing	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 thing	advmod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					than his own; broad property	tree rules
2	tease	past · perfect · passive		the Pygmies				about that thing	tree rules

Option 4

the stranger's helmet was shinier than his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helmet	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stranger	case
4	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shinier	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shinier	cop
6	shinier	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 his	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shinier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stranger's helmet					shiny property	tree rules

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