Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Did Hercules actually battle the Pygmies in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: battle · To what, where: Hercules, end

This is test 6 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hercules	aux
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 battle	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 battle	advmod
4	battle	battle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pygmies	det
6	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 battle	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battle	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 battle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	battle	present		Hercules			in the end	actually property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Co-Agent

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 went all soft and let them be, like a big softie, and never fought them at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 soft	advmod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 softie	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 softie	csubj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 softie	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 softie	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 softie	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 softie	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 softie	amod
15	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fought	cc
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 fought	advmod
19	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fought	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	he				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive		them = they			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	infinitive				like a soft big softie	tree rules
4	not fight	past	he not said here	them = they	all		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went all soft and let them be, like a big softie

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 soft	advmod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soft	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 softie	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 softie	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 softie	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 softie	amod
15	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		like a big softie; soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	them = they		tree rules
3	be	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he went all soft and let them be, like a big softie, and walked off home for his tea

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 soft	advmod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soft	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 softie	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 softie	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 softie	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 softie	amod
15	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 walked	cc
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 walked	compound:prt
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 tea	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tea	nmod:poss
23	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	them = they	like a big softie	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk off	past	he not said here	home	for his tea	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Source

Option 4

Nah, he just tapped them with his club and walked away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tapped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tapped	advmod
5	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tapped	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 club	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 club	nmod:poss
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walked	cc
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tapped	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	he	them = they				with his club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with club=Instrument
2	walk away	past	he not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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