Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

wait is little thumb the smallest, like no bigger than a thumb?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: wait little thumb

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thumb	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thumb	cop
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thumb	amod
4	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bigger	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bigger	case
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 smallest	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 thumb	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thumb	det
13	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bigger	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 smallest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		wait little thumb					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that's why they called him that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 why	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 why	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	cop
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 called	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	call	past	they	him = he					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Result

Option 2

yeah, that's why he's so small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 why	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 why	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	cop
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 small	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 small	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 small	advmod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	is	present	he					small property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, that's why the name fits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 why	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 why	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	cop
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fits	nsubj
8	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	fit	present	the name						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, super tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	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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