Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

ngl, how big were his cheeks after the dwarfs' curse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, dwarfs · What happens: be, curse · To what, where: cheeks

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cheeks	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	amod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cheeks	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	12 curse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dwarfs	det
10	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 curse	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 dwarfs	case
12	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheeks	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cheeks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	ngl's cheeks			after the dwarfs's curse		tree rules
2	curse		the dwarfs						nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

two big cheeks, like a squirrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cheeks	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheeks	amod
3	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 squirrel	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 squirrel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 squirrel	det
7	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheeks	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

two big ones, like a hamster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hamster	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 hamster	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hamster	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	nmod

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

Option 3

two big ones, like a hamster storing nuts for winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hamster	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 hamster	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hamster	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	appos
8	storing	store	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hamster	acl
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 storing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 winter	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	gerund	a hamster not said here	nuts			winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme

Option 4

two huge ones, like a hamster with a mouthful of seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hamster	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 hamster	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hamster	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 mouthful	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouthful	det
10	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hamster	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 seeds	case
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mouthful	nmod

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

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