Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Did Hercules get a right gutted face when the arrows came?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules, arrows · What happens: get, gut, come · To what, where: right gutted face

This is test 3 · ★ 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 get	aux
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 right	det
5	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	compound
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 face	amod
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arrows	det
10	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Hercules	right gutted face	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
2	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the arrows		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nah, he just grinned and scratched his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grinned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 grinned	advmod
5	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scratched	cc
7	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grinned	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scratched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	past	he not said here	his head					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was well vexed, rubbed his face, and told them all to go away quietly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 vexed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vexed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 vexed	advmod
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rubbed	punct
8	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubbed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 them	nmod:unmarked
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	17 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive	he		well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	rub	past	his face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive			away, quietly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was well vexed and just rubbed his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 vexed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vexed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 vexed	advmod
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rubbed	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 rubbed	advmod
9	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		he				well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	rub	past		his face					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he was well vexed and just rubbed his face and then ignored the lot of them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 vexed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vexed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 vexed	advmod
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rubbed	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 rubbed	advmod
9	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ignored	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ignored	advmod
14	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ignored	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive	he		well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	rub	past	his face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	ignore	past	the lot of them	then		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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