Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

Dude, how high was that beanstalk, like Minecraft tall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: beanstalk

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beanstalk	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dude	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beanstalk	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 beanstalk	mark
7	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Minecraft	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Minecraft	case
10	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 beanstalk	nmod
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Minecraft	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 beanstalk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	beanstalk				like Minecraft	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

Taller than any tree around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taller	obl
5	around	around	ADV	_	1 Taller	advmod

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

Option 2

So high that it poked right through the clouds into the sky above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 poked	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poked	nsubj
5	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 high	advcl
6	right	right	ADV	_	9 clouds	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clouds	det
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poked	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obl
13	above	above	ADV	_	5 poked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past	it			the clouds		into the sky; above property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through cloud=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So high the village looked tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 village	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the high village					tiny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Way higher than the big hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 higher	nsubj
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	6 hill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hill	amod
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 higher	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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