--- title: Identify the correctly formed comparative and superlative of the adj… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the correctly formed comparative and superlative of the adjective "good". Exam question 3 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/e3/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/) / e3 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:e3:1 # text = Identify the correctly formed comparative and superlative of the adjective "good". 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 comparative comparative NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 superlative superlative NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} better, bestest ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:e3:o1:1 # text = better, bestest 1 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bestest best VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **best** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} gooder, goodest ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:e3:o2:1 # text = gooder, goodest 1 gooder gooder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 goodest goodest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} better, best ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:e3:o3:1 # text = better, best 1 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} more good, most good ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:e3:o4:1 # text = more good, most good 1 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 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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