Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

What was the principal reason the Pygmies gathered after Hercules fell asleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pygmies, Hercules · What happens: be, gather, fall · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pygmies	det
7	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 fell	mark
10	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gathered	advcl
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fell	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason		tree rules
2	gather	past	the Pygmies	the principal reason not said here		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
3	fall	past	Hercules		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

To deliberate upon avenging their slain brother and deciding how the whole tribe could take revenge.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 deliberate	case
2	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 avenging	mark
4	avenging	avenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 deliberate	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	compound
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avenging	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 deciding	cc
9	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 avenging	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 take	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tribe	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tribe	amod
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 deciding	ccomp
16	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deliberate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	avenge	gerund		their slain brother	tree rules
2	decide	gerund			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	could	the whole tribe	revenge	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme

Option 2

To deliberate upon burying their brother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 deliberate	case
2	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 burying	mark
4	burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 deliberate	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burying	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deliberate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	gerund		their brother					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

Option 3

To deliberate upon feasting for their slain brother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 deliberate	case
2	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 feasting	mark
4	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 deliberate	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 brother	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
7	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feasting	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deliberate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	gerund						for their slain brother	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To deliberate upon avenging their slain brother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 deliberate	case
2	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 avenging	mark
4	avenging	avenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 deliberate	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	compound
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avenging	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deliberate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	gerund		their slain brother					tree rules

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