Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

wait, how tall does the miller say babette is?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, miller, babette · What happens: wait, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	_	8 say	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	advcl
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	babette	babette	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the miller	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	babette	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

as tall as the church

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	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tall	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

higher than the eagle's nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 nest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nest	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 eagle	case
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 higher	obl

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

Option 3

very tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

taller than the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	5 mill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mill	amod
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 taller	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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