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title: Was the Pygmies' snoring hurricane proper wicked or what? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pyg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Pygmies' snoring hurricane proper wicked or what? Test 5 · ★ 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, with the dependency 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies: the Pygmies try to finish o…

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Was the Pygmies' snoring hurricane proper wicked or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** snore, be · **To what, where:** snoring hurricane

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This is test 5 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2054-pg976-part13/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2054-pg976-part13:t5:1
# text = Was the Pygmies' snoring hurricane proper wicked or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj	_	_
7	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Pygmies's snoring hurricane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn, proper wicked, couldn't believe it

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2054-pg976-part13:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn, proper wicked, couldn't believe it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | it | them *= they* |  |  | autumn | like leaves; over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **believe** | could |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2054-pg976-part13:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | it | them *= they* |  |  | autumn | like leaves; over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn and they flew into the trees

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2054-pg976-part13:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it blew them all over like leaves in autumn and they flew into the trees
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | it | them *= they* |  |  | autumn | like leaves; over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | past | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | into the trees *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it knocked them flat, mate, brilliant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2054-pg976-part13:t5:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it knocked them flat, mate, brilliant
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | it | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mate=Theme |

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