Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

Bro, how big did the Dolphin say the Shark was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, Dolphin, Shark · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1400 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to the shore, dives in to save Geppetto, and reaches the Land of the Busy Bees» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bro	amod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dolphin	det
7	Dolphin	Dolphin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Shark	det
10	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Dolphin	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	the Shark	vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

five stories high and as wide as the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stories	nummod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 high	obl:unmarked
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wide	cc
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 wide	advmod
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 high	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wide	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

five stories high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stories	nummod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 high	obl:unmarked
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

as tall as a tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

ten stories tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stories	nummod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	obl:unmarked
3	tall	tall	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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