Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Was the Pygmies' snoring hurricane proper wicked or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: snore, be · To what, where: snoring hurricane

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurricane	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pygmies	det
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurricane	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 Pygmies	case
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hurricane	amod
6	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wicked	csubj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 wicked	advmod
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wicked	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the Pygmies's snoring hurricane					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, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn, proper wicked, couldn't believe it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 autumn	case
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wicked	punct
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 wicked	advmod
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blew	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 believe	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 believe	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 believe	advmod
18	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 wicked	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	it	them = they			autumn	like leaves; over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	not believe	could		it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 autumn	case
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	it	them = they			autumn	like leaves; over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn and they flew into the trees

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 autumn	case
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blew	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	it	them = they			autumn	like leaves; over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	fly	past	leaves = leaf					into the trees result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result

Option 4

Yeah, it knocked them flat, mate, brilliant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	obj
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mate	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flat	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brilliant	punct
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knocked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	it	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mate=Theme

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