Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

What did the Pygmy say he'd do, like, personally?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pygmy · What happens: do, say, like · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmy	det
4	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 personally	punct
12	personally	personally	ADV	_	10 like	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Pygmy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	Pygmy		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	infinitive		personally property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Trick Hercules with a plan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Trick	appos
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 plan	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trick	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Trick	punct

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

Option 2

Fight him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fight	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fight Hercules one-on-one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Hercules	hercules	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fight	obj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fight	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 one	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 on	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	Hercules					tree rules

Option 4

Run away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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