Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…
Was Hercules even aware of the Pygmies, fr?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 2 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 aware | advmod |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Pygmies | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pygmies | det |
| 7 | Pygmies | Pygmy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 aware | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fr | punct |
| 9 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Pygmies | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hercules | of the Pygmies; aware property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he never even noticed them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 noticed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 noticed | advmod |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noticed | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past | he | them = they | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, not really.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he never noticed them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 noticed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past | he | them = they | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he saw them but ignored them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 ignored | cc |
| 7 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ignored | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | them = they | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ignore | past | he not said here | them = they | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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