Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

how big was she, like, proper tiny?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: she

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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	4 she	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 she	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tiny	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 she	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tiny	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tiny	amod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		she					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

Small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Two fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fingers	nummod
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Only half a thumb high and very thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 thumb	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thumb	det
4	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thumb	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thin	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 thin	advmod
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 high	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Half a thumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 thumb	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thumb	det
3	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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