Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

Oi, how big did the thing get?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, thing · What happens: do, get · To what, where: thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Oi	amod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi	the thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the thing not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

big as a pony

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	_	4 pony	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pony	det
4	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 big	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

big as a horse

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	_	4 horse	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 big	obl

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

Option 3

a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

bigger than the biggest barn door in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 door	amod
5	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bigger	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	nmod

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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