Test 9 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

★★★ Which simile is a cliché?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: be · To what, where: cliché

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the English 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cliché	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 simile	det
5	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod:unmarked
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cliché	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cliché	det
8	cliché	cliché	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cliché	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	★ ★ ★ which simile	a cliché					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

as cold as ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	obl

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

Option 2

as cold as a spoon left in the freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 spoon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	obl
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spoon	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 freezer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 freezer	det
9	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		a spoon not said here				in the freezer result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Result

Option 3

as cold as Monday-morning pavement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 pavement	case
4	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pavement	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Monday	punct
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pavement	compound
7	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	obl

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

Option 4

as cold as the back of a fridge door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 door	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod

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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