Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

wait, how tiny was he?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 625 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 he	cop
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tiny	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		he					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

so small that he could hide behind a picket-pin all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 hide	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hide	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	aux
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 small	advcl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 pin	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pin	det
9	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pin	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 picket	punct
11	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	could	he			a picket pin	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind pin=Location

Option 2

smaller than a picket-pin in the lines at camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 pin	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
4	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 picket	punct
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smaller	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lines	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lines	det
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pin	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 camp	case
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lines	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

smaller than a picket-pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 pin	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
4	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 picket	punct
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smaller	obl

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

Option 4

as tall as a fence post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 post	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 post	det
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 post	compound
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tall	obl

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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