Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

bro, how high were those opera boxes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: opera boxes

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boxes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bro	amod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boxes	cop
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 boxes	det
7	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boxes	compound
8	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 boxes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	that opera boxes					tree rules

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

Very low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 low	advmod
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Up to a dizzy height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 height	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 height	det
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 height	amod
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Almost to the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	4 roof	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 roof	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Not high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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