Test 3 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

Mega question, how old did people reckon Snowflake looked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mega question, Snowflake · What happens: reckon, look

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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	Mega	Mega	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 question	compound
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Mega question						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look	past	Snowflake						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Much older than the village girls, a grown woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 older	advmod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 girls	amod
3	than	than	ADP	_	6 girls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girls	compound
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Fifteen or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 so	cc
3	so	so	ADV	_	1 Fifteen	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thirteen at least

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 least	case
3	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Thirteen	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Older than thirteen, maybe even sixteen or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 thirteen	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Older	fixed
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sixteen	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 sixteen	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 sixteen	advmod
7	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thirteen	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 so	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	7 sixteen	conj

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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