Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leave…

Were the guards short or proper tall, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guards · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tall	nsubj
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 proper	cc
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 short	conj
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	ADP	_	7 tall	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the guards					tall property	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

Proper tall, eight feet or more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 feet	conj

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

Option 2

Proper tall, eight feet or more, which made them look like giants among the common folk of the village

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obl:unmarked
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 feet	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 giants	case
14	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
15	among	among	ADP	_	18 folk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 folk	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 folk	amod
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 folk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		tall eight feet					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	tall eight feet not said here					like giants; among the common folk of the village	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among folk=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Proper tall, eight feet or more, and they carried massive silver spears all the way to the palace

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tall	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 feet	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carried	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tall	parataxis
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 silver	amod
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spears	nsubj
14	spears	spear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	ccomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 way	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spears	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	feet = foot						tree rules
2	spear	present	massive silver	all way				to the palace	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument way=Patient

Option 4

Proper short, four feet or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 short	advmod
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 so	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	5 feet	conj

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

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