Test 15 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

What did he reckon he'd look like in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: reckon, look

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 it	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	he						tree rules
2	look	would	he					like it	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Richer than everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Richer	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Smarter than everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Smarter	obl

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

Option 3

Smarter than everyone in the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Smarter	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	amod
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod

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

Option 4

Taller than everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Taller	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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