Test 9 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

No cap, how fast did the cow say she could run?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, cow · What happens: do, say, run · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	fast property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the cow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run	could	cow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

quite quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 quick	advmod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

twice as fast as them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fast	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fast	obl

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

Option 3

three times as quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 quick	case
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

as the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 horse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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