Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

Why did Hercules drop his club, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: drop · To what, where: club

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 drop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drop	aux
3	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drop	nsubj
4	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 club	nmod:poss
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 club	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · do-support	Hercules	Hercules's club and real talk					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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

He wanted a fair match because his club had been broken by the Giant's enormous weight earlier.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 match	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 match	amod
5	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 broken	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 club	nmod:poss
8	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 broken	aux:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	17 weight	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weight	det
14	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 weight	amod
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Giant	case
16	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 weight	amod
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	obl
18	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 broken	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a fair match					tree rules
2	break not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	the Giant enormous weight	his club				early property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted a fair wrestling match.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
5	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a fair wrestling match					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot match=Theme

Option 3

He wanted a fair wrestling match, so he set the club aside to be even with the Giant.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
5	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 club	det
12	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obj
13	aside	aside	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	19 Giant	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 Giant	cop
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 Giant	advmod
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 Giant	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Giant	det
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 set	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a fair wrestling match		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot match=Theme
2	set	past	he	the club	aside property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient club=Result
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		giant property	tree rules

Option 4

He wanted a fair sword match.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a fair sword match					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot match=Theme

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