Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Mate, how tall was that giant, like proper huge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giant	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mate	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giant	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 giant	mark
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 huge	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 huge	case
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 huge	amod
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giant	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mate					giant property	tree rules
2	be		Mate not said here						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

Like a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eighteen feet high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 high	obl:unmarked
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Pretty tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

About twelve feet high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	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.

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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