Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

test: Wot's the giant Cormoran's height, like, in feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: be · To what, where: giant height

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 height	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 height	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 height	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 height	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 height	amod
7	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 height	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Cormoran	case
9	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	9 height	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feet	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 feet	case
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 height	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 height	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wot	Cormoran's giant height and feet				test obl:unmarked	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

Nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Eighteen feet tall, roughly, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	obl:unmarked
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 roughly	punct
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Eighteen feet, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 feet	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	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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