Test 5 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

How tall was Jem, like seriously?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Jem

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Jem	cop
4	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tall	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seriously	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 seriously	case
7	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	2 tall	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tall	punct

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

Tiny, so tiny he needed a plank on two chairs just to reach the stove

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiny	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needed	nsubj
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plank	det
8	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 chairs	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 chairs	nummod
11	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 needed	obl
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 reach	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 reach	mark
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 needed	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stove	det
16	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	he	a plank		two chairs			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plank=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	he not said here	the stove					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stove=Theme

Option 2

Tiny, honestly tiny, he needed a plank on two chairs and a cushion too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiny	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needed	nsubj
7	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plank	det
9	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chairs	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 chairs	nummod
12	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 needed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cushion	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cushion	det
15	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chairs	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	7 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	he	a plank		two chairs and a cushion			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plank=Theme

Option 3

Tall for a dwarf, he stood on crates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 dwarf	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
4	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tall	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tall	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 crates	case
9	crates	crate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	he			crates			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crate=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tiny, he needed a plank on two chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needed	nsubj
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plank	det
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 chairs	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 chairs	nummod
9	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	he	a plank		two chairs			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plank=Theme

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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