Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Fr, who was heavier, the boy or Mars Jeems?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 589 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the old man refuses more tales, then offers a ride and a string of sayings and songs» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 heavier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 Mars	cc
10	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boy	conj
11	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mars	flat
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fr					the boy or Mars obl; heavy 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

Mars Jeems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat

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

Option 2

Neither, they weighed the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 weighed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weighed	nsubj
4	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weighed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	past	they	the same				neither property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mars Jeems was heavier than the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	nsubj
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mars					than the boy; heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

Mars Jeems was much heavier than the boy and the old man's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	nsubj
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 heavier	advmod
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 back	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mars					than the boy; heavy property	tree rules

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