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title: How did Hercules think the Pygmy wailing sounded? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did Hercules think the Pygmy wailing sounded? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

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How did Hercules think the Pygmy wailing sounded?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hercules · **What happens:** think, sound · **To what, where:** Pygmy wailing

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2053-pg976-part12/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t10:1
# text = How did Hercules think the Pygmy wailing sounded?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Hercules | the Pygmy wailing |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wailing=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | participle |  | the Pygmy wailing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Like tiny frogs croaking.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t10:o1:1
# text = Like tiny frogs croaking.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like tiny frogs | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Like little birds tweeting.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t10:o2:1
# text = Like little birds tweeting.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	tweeting	tweet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweet** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like little birds | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like little birds tweeting happily in the trees above the sleepy hero.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t10:o3:1
# text = Like little birds tweeting happily in the trees above the sleepy hero.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	tweeting	tweet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tweet** | gerund | little birds *not said here* |  |  | the trees above the sleepy hero |  | happily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Like birds.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t10:o4:1
# text = Like birds.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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