Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Hang on, how did a bloke that small even carry a sword?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bloke · What happens: hang on, do, carry · To what, where: bloke, sword

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 carry	nsubj
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 carry	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 carry	advmod
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bloke	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sword	det
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	you not said here	a bloke	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Eventuality
3	carry	infinitive	a bloke	a sword	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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

His sword was about as long as a finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 finger	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 finger	det
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His sword					as a finger; about, long property	tree rules

Option 2

He had a dagger

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dagger	det
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a dagger					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His sword was only as long as a penknife blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 blade	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blade	det
9	penknife	penknife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blade	compound
10	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His sword					as a penknife blade; long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He carried a little blade, very short

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blade	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blade	amod
5	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 short	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 short	advmod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 carried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	He	a little blade					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme

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