Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…
Hang on, did Hercules come back to finish the job?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hercules · What happens: hang on, come back, finish · To what, where: job
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hang | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hang | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 finish | mark |
| 9 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 job | det |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finish | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang on | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come back | past · do-support | Hercules | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | Hercules not said here | the job | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality |
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
Nah, he said sorry, shook hands, strode off, and never returned to the field
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hands | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 7 | shook | shook | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hands | amod |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strode | punct |
| 10 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 strode | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returned | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 returned | advmod |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 field | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | sorry shook hands | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hand=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stride off | past | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not return | past | he not said here | to the field result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to field=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he said sorry, shook hands and strode off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strode | cc |
| 10 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 strode | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | past | he | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | he not said here | hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stride off | past | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he said sorry, shook hands with the captains and strode off back home
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 captains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 captains | det |
| 11 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strode | cc |
| 13 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 strode | compound:prt |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 strode | advmod |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 strode | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | past | he | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | he not said here | hands | with the captains | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with captain=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | stride off | past | he not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, he apologised, shook hands, walked off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 apologised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 apologised | nsubj |
| 4 | apologised | apologise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shook | punct |
| 6 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologised | conj |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shook | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologised | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 walked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | he not said here | hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk off | past | he not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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