Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

Oi, what was the Pygmy's comeback when Hercules asked about his soul?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: comeback

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	8 comeback	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 comeback	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 comeback	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pygmy	det
6	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 comeback	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Pygmy	case
8	comeback	comeback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
10	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 comeback	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 soul	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 soul	nmod:poss
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 comeback	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Pygmy's comeback					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Hercules					about Hercules's soul	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about soul=Topic

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

As large as yours!" he said, quite smug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 large	advmod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yours	amod
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 yours	case
4	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 said	parataxis
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 yours	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yours	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smug	punct
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 smug	advmod
11	smug	smug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 2

As big as your own!" he said, dead confident, and puffed out his chest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 big	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 confident	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 confident	amod
12	confident	confident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 puffed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 puffed	cc
15	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 puffed	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 chest	nmod:poss
18	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	he	dead confident					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	puff out in a quote	participle	he not said here	his chest					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Source

Option 3

As big as your own!" he said, dead confident, and then stood tall

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 big	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 big	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 confident	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 confident	amod
12	confident	confident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stood	advmod
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 big	conj
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stood	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	he	dead confident					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stand in a quote	past					then	tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"As big as your own!" he said, dead confident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 confident	amod
13	confident	confident	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	dead confident					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent confident=Topic

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