Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

so how big was the tapestry, like the size of a bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big tapestry

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tapestry	amod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tapestry	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tapestry	det
6	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tapestry	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tapestry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big tapestry					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

Roughly four yards wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 yards	nummod
3	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wide	obl:unmarked
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Big enough to fit a whole family and their dog on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Big	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fit	mark
4	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Big	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dog	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dog	nmod:poss
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	to-infinitive		a whole family and family's dog				on dog	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent family=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 3

Massive, as big as the whole front room of a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Massive	conj
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About six feet square

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 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 square	obl:unmarked
4	square	square	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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