Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

Wait, how many Pygmies crowded up, like roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, crowd up · To what, where: many Pygmies

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Pygmies	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Pygmies	amod
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
6	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Pygmies	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 crowded	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roughly	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 roughly	case
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	many Pygmies				roughly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crowd up	participle		many Pygmies not said here					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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

Like a small crowd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 crowd	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowd	amod
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crowd	punct

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

Option 2

Like a 27 feet square crowd, all packed in tight with their little arms raised high.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	6 crowd	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
3	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 square	obl:unmarked
5	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 packed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crowd	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 packed	nsubj
9	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 tight	case
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 packed	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 arms	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arms	amod
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 packed	obl
16	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 arms	acl
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 raised	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 packed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle	all			tight		like a square crowd; with feet's little arms	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tight=Destination
2	raise	participle		feet's little arms not said here				high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Like a 27 feet wide crowd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 feet	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feet	det
3	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feet	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Like a 27 feet square crowd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 feet	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feet	det
3	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feet	punct

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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