Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

how big was that tortoise, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: big tortoise

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 185 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escapes the snake, is rescued, gets his goods back, and meets cruel islanders» 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	5 tortoise	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tortoise	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 tortoise	mark
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tortoise	amod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tortoise	punct

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

twenty cubits, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cubits	nummod
2	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubits	conj

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

Option 2

thirty cubits, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cubits	nummod
2	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubits	conj

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

Option 3

bigger than a house and taller than the trees, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bigger	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 taller	cc
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 bigger	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taller	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	conj

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

Option 4

as long as the whole ship and its sails, mate, no joke

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 ship	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sails	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sails	nmod:poss
9	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ship	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ship	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joke	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ship	conj

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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