Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

wait, how tall were those furry little dudes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: those

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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	_	4 tall	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 those	cop
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 tall	obl
7	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dudes	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dudes	amod
9	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 those	appos
10	?	?	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		those					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

about three feet tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	obl:unmarked
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

two feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

like one foot tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foot	amod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

like two feet max

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 max	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 max	compound
4	max	max	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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