Test 10 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way…

how big is this castle, like proper big?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 castle	amod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 castle	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 big	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 big	case
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 big	advmod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 castle	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 castle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this big castle					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 · ✓ the right answer

the biggest one in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod

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

Option 2

bigger than Camelot itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 Camelot	case
3	Camelot	Camelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bigger	obl
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 Camelot	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

huge indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the biggest in all the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 biggest	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 land	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 biggest	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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