--- title: Were the guards short or proper tall, though? — Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Were the guards short or proper tall, though? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1466-pg503-part53/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1466-pg503-part53/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leave… Were the guards short or proper tall, though? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guards · **What happens:** be This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to him» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1466-pg503-part53/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1466-pg503-part53:t7:1 # text = Were the guards short or proper tall, though? 1 Were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 though though ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the guards | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Proper tall, eight feet or more ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1466-pg503-part53:t7:o1:1 # text = Proper tall, eight feet or more 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Proper tall, eight feet or more, which made them look like giants among the common folk of the village ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1466-pg503-part53:t7:o2:1 # text = Proper tall, eight feet or more, which made them look like giants among the common folk of the village 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 among among ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | | tall eight feet | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | tall eight feet *not said here* | | | | | like giants; among the common folk of the village | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among folk=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Proper tall, eight feet or more, and they carried massive silver spears all the way to the palace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1466-pg503-part53:t7:o3:1 # text = Proper tall, eight feet or more, and they carried massive silver spears all the way to the palace 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spears spear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | feet *= foot* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spear** | present | massive silver | all way | | | | to the palace | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument way=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Proper short, four feet or so ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1466-pg503-part53:t7:o4:1 # text = Proper short, four feet or so 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 5 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. 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