Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watc…

and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fast?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator, light · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 838 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 says	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faster	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 faster	cop
7	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 says	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	compound
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faster	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fast	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 fast	case
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 says	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the narrator					fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	light					than a race horse; fast 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

Like nine million times faster, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 faster	discourse
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl:unmarked
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	vocative

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like nineteen million times faster, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 million	case
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl:unmarked
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	vocative

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

Option 3

Like nineteen million times faster, bro, which is wild if you think about it for real

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 million	case
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl:unmarked
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wild	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wild	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wild	cop
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bro	acl:relcl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 think	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wild	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 real	case
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bro					wild property	tree rules
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you					about bro; for real	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Like a hundred times faster than a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 times	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl:unmarked
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	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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