Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

Is it true the Tunny was like a horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Tunny · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1412 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to shore, the Fox and Cat beg, milk for a penny» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tunny	det
5	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 horse	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 horse	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	is	past	the Tunny					like a horse	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

Yep, as big as a two-year-old horse and even heavier than the cart

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	12 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horse	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heavier	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 heavier	advmod
15	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 big	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 cart	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cart	det
18	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heavier	obl

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

Option 2

Nope, more like a lazy old goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 goat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 goat	det
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goat	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goat	amod
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, as big as a two-year-old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	12 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horse	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	obl

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

Option 4

Nope, he was really about as big as a large whale in the deep blue sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 about	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 whale	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 whale	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whale	amod
12	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sea	amod
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sea	amod
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the deep blue sea		as a large whale; about, big property	tree rules

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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