Test 8 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

Who was snoring louder than thunder, proper loud?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: snore

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 snoring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snoring	aux
3	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 snoring	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 thunder	case
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 louder	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loud	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loud	amod
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thunder	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 snoring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past · progressive						loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

the big hungry Giant upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Giant	amod
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Giant	amod
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 Giant	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the Ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Giantess snoring away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giantess	det
2	Giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Giantess	acl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 snoring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore away	gerund	the Giantess not said here					away property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	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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