Exam question 3 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

Identify the correctly formed comparative and superlative of the adjective "good".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, form · To what, where: comparative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 formed	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 formed	advmod
4	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
5	comparative	comparative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 superlative	cc
7	superlative	superlative	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comparative	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 adjective	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 adjective	det
10	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 superlative	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adjective	amod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here						vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	form	past	you not said here	comparative and superlative of the adjective				correctly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location comparative=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

better, bestest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bestest	punct
3	bestest	best	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 better	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	best	present							tree rules

Option 2

gooder, goodest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gooder	gooder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goodest	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 gooder	punct
3	goodest	goodest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

better, best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 best	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 better	punct
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 4

more good, most good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 good	amod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 good	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	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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