Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Wait, so the tiny bloke was actually well brave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tiny bloke · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brave	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 brave	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bloke	amod
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brave	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brave	cop
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 brave	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 brave	advmod
10	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the tiny bloke					actually, brave, well 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

Yeah, he was well brave, mate, no question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brave	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 brave	advmod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brave	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 question	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 question	det
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mate vocative; brave, well property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was mint, he stood up to a massive giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mint	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	cop
5	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stood	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 giant	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 giant	det
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 giant	amod
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mint property	tree rules
2	stand up	past	he					to a massive giant	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he was mint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	cop
5	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mint property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was mint, he faced the giant head-on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mint	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mint	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	cop
5	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 faced	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 faced	nsubj
8	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 head	amod
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 faced	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 head	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	8 faced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mint property	tree rules
2	face	past	he	the giant head					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Destination

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