Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

How big was the spear the youth needed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, need · To what, where: big spear

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spear	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spear	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spear	det
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	nsubj:pass
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	nsubj:pass
8	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big spear					tree rules
2	need	participle · passive		the big spear					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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

Three fathoms, massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fathoms	nummod
2	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 massive	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fathoms	punct
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ten feet, massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 massive	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 feet	punct
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Massive, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two fathoms, massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fathoms	nummod
2	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 massive	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fathoms	punct
4	massive	massive	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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