Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Yo, how many tiny warriors were there anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many tiny warriors · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 there	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warriors	amod
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warriors	amod
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many tiny warriors					anyway, there 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 · ← Mova's choice

Thousands of archers, plus a load of spearmen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 archers	case
3	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 load	punct
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	7 load	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 load	det
7	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thousands	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 spearmen	case
9	spearmen	spearmen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 load	nmod

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

Option 2

Twenty thousand archers, plus loads more with spades, and some with hay carts too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 archers	nummod
3	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loads	punct
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	6 loads	cc
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 archers	conj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 archers	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 spades	case
9	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 more	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carts	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carts	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 carts	det
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 hay	case
14	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carts	compound
15	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 archers	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 carts	advmod

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

Option 3

Twenty thousand bowmen and lots with shovels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bowmen	nummod
3	bowmen	bowman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lots	cc
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bowmen	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 shovels	case
7	shovels	shovel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bowmen	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty thousand archers, plus loads more with spades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 archers	nummod
3	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loads	punct
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	6 loads	cc
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 archers	conj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 loads	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 spades	case
9	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 archers	nmod

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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