Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Ngl, how big was the slick guy's watch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: watch

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 599 «Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus shows up bandaged on the Fourth of July, and the newspaper men question him about a fight with a slick man» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 watch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ngl	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guy	det
7	slick	slick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guy	amod
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 guy	case
10	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the slick guy's watch					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

Like a plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Big as a saucer

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 saucer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 saucer	det
4	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Big	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Big as a barrel head

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	_	5 head	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Big	obl

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

Option 4

Like a pie tin wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 tin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tin	det
3	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tin	compound
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	wide	wide	ADV	_	4 tin	advmod

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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