Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

So Hercules just laughed at the little man, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: laugh

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Hercules					at the little man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, he was in stitches, nearly fell over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stitches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stitches	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stitches	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 stitches	case
6	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stitches	punct
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			stitches			tree rules
2	fall over	past						nearly, over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, proper giggling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 giggling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 giggling	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giggling	amod
4	giggling	giggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, he was in bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bits	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bits	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			bits			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was in bits, he nearly dropped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bits	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bits	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dropped	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bits	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dropped	nsubj
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 dropped	advmod
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			bits			tree rules
2	drop	past	bits	him = he				nearly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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