Test 14 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Wait, how much bigger was Ring's wood pile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: bigger wood pile

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pile	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 pile	amod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pile	cop
7	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pile	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ring	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pile	compound
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Ring's bigger wood pile					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

twice as big as the King's whole woodpile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 big	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	9 woodpile	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 woodpile	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woodpile	amod
9	woodpile	woodpile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

more than twice as big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 twice	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 more	fixed
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 big	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

much bigger than Red's, all in one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	much	much	ADV	_	2 bigger	advmod
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	7 all	case
4	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Red	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bigger	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod

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

Option 4

barely bigger than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barely	barely	ADV	_	2 bigger	advmod
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 before	case
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 bigger	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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