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description: Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider". What would you tell him? Test 1 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 choice was right.
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# Test 1 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

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Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider". What would you tell him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** write, tell · **To what, where:** mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language 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/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:1
# text = Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider".
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would you tell him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:2
# text = What would you tell him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | you |  | mate |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Swap them into alphabetical order

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:o1:1
# text = Swap them into alphabetical order
1	Swap	swap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | alphabetical order |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Pick one size word and add a different detail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:o2:1
# text = Pick one size word and add a different detail
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | one size word |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a different detail |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's perfect, more adjectives are always better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:o3:1
# text = It's perfect, more adjectives are always better
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | more adjectives |  |  |  |  | always, good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Add three more size words to make it scarier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t1:o4:1
# text = Add three more size words to make it scarier
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	scarier	scarey	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | three more size words |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | scarey *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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