Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Was the king's eye like, massive?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: eye

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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 eye	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 massive	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 massive	punct
8	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king's eye				like massive	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

Yeah, big as a cup, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 cup	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cup	det
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj

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

Option 2

Yeah, big as a plate, mental, bulging right out of his head like a boiled egg

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 plate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mental	punct
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bulging	punct
10	bulging	bulge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 big	conj
11	right	right	ADV	_	15 head	advmod
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 head	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bulging	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 egg	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 egg	det
18	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 egg	amod
19	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bulging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bulge	gerund		his head				like a boiled egg	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
2	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, big as a plate, mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 plate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mental	punct
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, his eye was tiny, like a pin, and he squinted all through the feast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pin	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 pin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pin	det
10	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 squinted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 squinted	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 squinted	nsubj
14	squinted	squint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	14 squinted	advmod
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 feast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 squinted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his eye					tiny property	tree rules
2	squint	past	he					through the feast; all property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through feast=Theme

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