Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Mad, how big was that ruby vase, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mad ruby vase

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vase	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 vase	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 vase	mark
7	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vase	compound
8	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roughly	punct
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	8 vase	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 vase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mad ruby vase				roughly 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

About six feet high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Around eight inches tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	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 3

About six inches high and set on a golden base with rubies all around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl:unmarked
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 set	cc
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 high	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 base	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 base	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 base	amod
10	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 rubies	case
12	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 base	nmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 around	advmod
14	around	around	ADV	_	6 set	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle				a golden base with rubies		around property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on base=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About six inches high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl:unmarked
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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