Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, an…

Okay, how small was the kid, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: small kid

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 118 «Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, and offers to help thieves rob a pastor» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kid	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kid	punct
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 kid	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the small kid				exactly property	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

Almost as tall as a cup, with a round face and a little voice

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
3	tall	tall	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 tall	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tall	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 face	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 face	det
10	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tall	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 voice	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 voice	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voice	amod
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	conj

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

Option 2

About as big as a pea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 pea	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pea	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl

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

Option 3

Smaller than a mouse but with the same fingers and toes as a grown boy

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 mouse	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smaller	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fingers	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fingers	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fingers	amod
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mouse	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 toes	cc
11	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fingers	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 boy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just as big as a thumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 thumb	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thumb	det
6	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl

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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