Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Did Hercules leave the Pygmies in peace, or did he take them home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: leave, take · To what, where: Pygmies, peace

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2054 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish off the sleeping Hercules, but he wakes, laughs at their champion, spares them, and leaves» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pygmies	det
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 peace	case
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 take	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	Hercules	the Pygmies		peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pygmy=Theme in peace=Location
2	take	past · do-support	Hercules	Pygmies = pygmy				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 sent them home to their own land

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 land	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 land	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He	them = they		their own land		home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to land=Destination

Option 2

He left them in their own land, the lucky lot, and never bothered them again

The tree, 15 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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 land	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 land	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bothered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bothered	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 bothered	advmod
15	bothered	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bothered	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 bothered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	them = they		their own land and the lucky lot			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in land=Location
2	not bother	past	He not said here	land			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3

He left them in their own land, bless them

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 land	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 land	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bless	punct
9	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 left	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	them = they		their own land			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in land=Location
2	bless	infinitive		them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He left them in their own land, the lucky lot

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 land	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 land	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	them = they		their own land and the lucky lot			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in land=Location

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