Test 6 · ★ · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

How big was the wolf, like, massive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big wolf

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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 wolf	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wolf	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 massive	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 massive	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wolf	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wolf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big wolf					tree rules
2	be								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 the size of a calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 size	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 size	det
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 calf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 size	nmod

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

Option 2

Big as a full grown ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	6 ox	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ox	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ox	amod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ox	amod
6	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Big	obl

#	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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Size of a yearling heifer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 heifer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heifer	det
4	yearling	yearling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heifer	compound
5	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Size	nmod

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

Option 4

Like a pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 pony	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pony	det
3	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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