Test 3 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

wait, how tiny were the little peeps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: tiny little peeps

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1486 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked on a rock, tied down, fed by tiny people» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peeps	amod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 peeps	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peeps	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peeps	amod
8	peeps	peep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the tiny little peeps					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 · ← Mova's choice

not six feet high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl:unmarked
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

not six inches high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl:unmarked
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

about six inches tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	obl:unmarked
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

very small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	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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