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title: How big was that giant statue at the harbour, like massive? — Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: How big was that giant statue at the harbour, like massive? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 507 «Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives the sun-chariot and falls into the river Eridanus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 11 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…

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How big was that giant statue at the harbour, like massive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big giant statue, harbour

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 507 «Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives the sun-chariot and falls into the river Eridanus» 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/507-pg22381-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:507-pg22381-part13:t11:1
# text = How big was that giant statue at the harbour, like massive?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | big giant statue |  | the harbour |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

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1050 feet, dead massive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:507-pg22381-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = 1050 feet, dead massive
1	1050	1050	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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15 feet, bare small, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:507-pg22381-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = 15 feet, bare small, bruv
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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105 feet, proper huge, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:507-pg22381-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = 105 feet, proper huge, mate
1	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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50 feet, innit ok

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:507-pg22381-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = 50 feet, innit ok
1	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **innit** | infinitive | 50 feet |  |  |  |  | ok *property* | tree rules |

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**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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