--- title: Wait, how much bigger was Ring's wood pile? — Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, how much bigger was Ring's wood pile? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1731-pg640-part55/t14/) [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/) / [Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1731-pg640-part55/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th… Wait, how much bigger was Ring's wood pile? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** bigger wood pile This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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/1731-pg640-part55/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t14:1 # text = Wait, how much bigger was Ring's wood pile? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 Ring Ring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | | Ring's bigger wood pile | | | | | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} twice as big as the King's whole woodpile ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t14:o1:1 # text = twice as big as the King's whole woodpile 1 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 2 as as ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 woodpile woodpile NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} more than twice as big ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t14:o2:1 # text = more than twice as big 1 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} much bigger than Red's, all in one day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t14:o3:1 # text = much bigger than Red's, all in one day 1 much much ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} barely bigger than before ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t14:o4:1 # text = barely bigger than before 1 barely barely ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 before before ADV RB _ 2 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. 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