Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Yo, how tall were the elves?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: elves · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 tall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elves	det
7	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the elves						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

not higher than her knee, and very light on their feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 higher	advmod
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 light	amod
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 knee	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knee	nmod:poss
5	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 higher	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 light	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 light	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 light	advmod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 light	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

not higher than her knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 higher	advmod
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 knee	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knee	nmod:poss
5	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 higher	obl

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

Option 3

so small they could stand under a leaf, about her knee high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stand	advcl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stand	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 leaf	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 leaf	det
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knee	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 knee	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knee	nmod:poss
12	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knee	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	could	they			a leaf		about her knee	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location

Option 4

no taller than a spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	ADV	_	2 taller	advmod
2	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 spoon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 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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