Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Bro, how tall was the dwarf, like actually?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dwarf	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bro	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dwarf	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarf	det
7	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 actually	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 actually	case
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 dwarf	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dwarf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bro					actually, dwarf 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

Taller than most grown men in the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	5 men	case
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 men	amod
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taller	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Up to the height of the castle door handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	4 height	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 height	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 height	det
4	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 handle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 handle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handle	compound
9	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 height	nmod

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

Option 3

Over five feet at most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 most	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 feet	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not more than three feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 more	obl

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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