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Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high". How much taller is Giraffe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Giraffe · What happens: say, be · To what, where: four half feet, much Giraffe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 77 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Leopard	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Leopard	det
5	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 high	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 high	cop
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 high	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 seventeen	advmod
11	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 feet	nummod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 high	obl:unmarked
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 high	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Zebra	cc
16	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 high	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 high	punct
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 four	advmod
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 feet	nummod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feet	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 half	det
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 feet	compound
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 high	obl:unmarked
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 high	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 high	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★ ★ the Leopard						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Giraffe					seventeen feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		Giraffe not said here	four half feet					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.

Sentence 2: How much taller is Giraffe?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Giraffe	amod
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 much	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Giraffe	cop
5	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Giraffe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		much Giraffe					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Thirteen and a half feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feet	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 half	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 feet	compound
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thirteen	conj

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

Option 2

Twenty-one and a half feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feet	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 half	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 feet	compound
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve and a half feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feet	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 half	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 feet	compound
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Twelve	conj

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

Option 4

Eleven and a half feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feet	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 half	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 feet	compound
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eleven	conj

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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