Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…

was the funeral cairn small or massive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: funeral cairn · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cairn	det
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cairn	compound
4	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	nsubj
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 massive	cc
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the funeral cairn					small property	tree rules
2	be		the funeral cairn not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

Small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Massive, a great mound larger than Tara's hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 larger	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mound	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mound	amod
5	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 larger	nsubj
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 hill	case
8	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hill	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Tara	case
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 larger	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ten acres wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 acres	nummod
2	acres	acre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wide	obl:unmarked
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Two acres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 acres	nummod
2	acres	acre	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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