Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145:…

how high was the prince up in the sky

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: high prince, sky

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 934 «Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145: the Winds tell their travels, and the East Wind flies the prince toward paradise» 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 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prince	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prince	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 prince	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prince	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the high prince		the sky			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

higher than any bird, higher than the mountains, so high the wind had to hold him up, proper high, dude

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 higher	advcl
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 bird	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 higher	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 higher	punct
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountains	det
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 higher	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 high	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 high	advmod
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 higher	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 high	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hold	mark
17	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hold	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 hold	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 high	punct
21	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 high	amod
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 high	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dude	punct
24	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 higher	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the wind						tree rules
2	hold up	to-infinitive	the wind not said here	wind					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

above the clouds, proper high, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	above	above	ADP	_	3 clouds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clouds	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	amod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clouds	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clouds	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

above the clouds so high that he could see the whole world below him like a painted map, dude

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	above	above	ADP	_	3 clouds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clouds	amod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	below	below	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 map	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 map	det
17	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 map	amod
18	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clouds	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dude	punct
20	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 map	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	he	the whole world				below him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

way over the clouds, super high, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 clouds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clouds	det
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 way	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 high	punct
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clouds	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dude	punct
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clouds	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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