Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hear…

how big was the light, though, like a torch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big light

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 311 «Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hears about Peter, then a boy drops into the nursery.» 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 light	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 though	punct
7	though	though	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 torch	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 torch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 torch	det
11	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big light and a torch				though 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

Size of a fist, but way brighter than a torch

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	_	4 fist	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fist	det
4	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Size	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 way	cc
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Size	conj
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 way	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 torch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 torch	det
11	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brighter	obl

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

Option 2

Big as a fist, with a glow like a lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glow	amod
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 fist	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fist	det
4	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Big	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glow	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 glow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glow	det
8	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 lamp	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lamp	det
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glow	nmod

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

Option 3

Like a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Size of a fist

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	_	4 fist	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fist	det
4	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Size	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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