Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Why did the Pygmies bother with a fire anyway?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: bother

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bother	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmies	det
4	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	nsubj
5	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bother	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 bother	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	past · do-support	the Pygmies					with a fire; anyway property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Coz they reckoned he'd roast if he didn't move, so they built the biggest bonfire ever

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 reckoned	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roast	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 roast	aux
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 move	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roast	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 built	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 built	nsubj
15	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckoned	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bonfire	det
17	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 bonfire	amod
18	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 built	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reckon	past	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	roast	would	he			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	not move a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	he			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	build	past	they	the biggest bonfire	ever	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bonfire=Product

Option 2

Coz they reckoned he'd roast if he didn't move, and they'd all be heroes then

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 reckoned	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roast	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 roast	aux
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 move	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roast	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heroes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heroes	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heroes	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 heroes	aux
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 heroes	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 heroes	cop
18	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckoned	obl
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 reckoned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they		then		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	roast	would	he				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	not move a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	he				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	would	they	heroes		all property	tree rules

Option 3

Coz they thought fire'd scare him off the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scare	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scare	aux
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scare	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	scare	would	fire	him = he				off the field	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coz they reckoned he'd roast if he didn't move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 reckoned	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roast	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 roast	aux
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 move	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	reckon	past	they	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	roast	would	he	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	not move a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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