Test 5 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 massive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 massive	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nose	nmod:poss
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 massive	nsubj
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	amod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 massive	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 massive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his nose					massive property	tree rules
2	be		his nose not said here						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

as long as a whole arm and then some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 arm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arm	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 then	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 long	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 long	nsubj

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

Option 2

quite two hands long and well hooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hands	nummod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 well	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	participle							vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

quite two hands long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hands	nummod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

quite three hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hands	nummod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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