Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

how tall was she again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tall	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tall	nsubj
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				again	tall 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An inch high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 inch	det
2	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 high	obl:unmarked
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Half an inch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 inch	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 inch	det
3	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Only an inch high, the size of a grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 inch	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 inch	det
3	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inch	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 size	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inch	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grain	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grain	det
10	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nmod

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

Option 4

About an inch high and very thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 inch	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 inch	det
3	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	obl:unmarked
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thin	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 thin	advmod
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 high	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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