Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Ngl, was that roc huge or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 179 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident in the cave, then a lonely walk to a copper castle» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 huge	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 huge	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 huge	nsubj
5	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 huge	compound
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 huge	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 huge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ngl					huge property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Massive, it could lift an elephant to its nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lift	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lift	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lift	aux
5	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 elephant	det
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lift	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nest	nmod:poss
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	could	it	a elephant		elephant's nest			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme to nest=Destination

Option 2

Pretty big, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 big	discourse

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

Option 3

Massive, it could carry a whole ship away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carry	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ship	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	it	a whole ship				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme

Option 4

Huge, yeah, it was bigger than a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bigger	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bigger	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bigger	cop
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Huge	advcl
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than a house; big property	tree rules

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