Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: horse zoom

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 does	advmod
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zoom	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 zoom	compound
8	zoom	zoom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 does	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the horse zoom				fast property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoom=Eventuality

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

As swift as an arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 swift	case
2	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 arrow	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swift	obl

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

Option 2

Like a hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

As fast as the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fast	obl

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

Option 4

Faster than any horse in all the king's stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 horse	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faster	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 stables	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stables	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stables	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 horse	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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