Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…
ngl, how old was the oldest brother?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: oldest brother
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ngl | amod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brother | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ngl | the oldest brother | 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
Fifteen, a total grown-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 up | det |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 up | amod |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 up | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fifteen | compound |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ten, like, just a bit older than Little Thumb's age... no, ten
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 older | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 older | punct |
| 3 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 older | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 older | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 older | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 age | case |
| 10 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Thumb | amod |
| 11 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 age | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Thumb | case |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 older | obl |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 17 ten | punct |
| 15 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 ten | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 older | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Twelve, so way older than everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 older | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 older | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 older | advmod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 older | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 older | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Seven, same as Little Thumb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 same | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 same | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Thumb | case |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Thumb | amod |
| 6 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 same | 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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