--- title: Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". How would most pe… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi… · tree and pragmatics description: Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". How would most people say it? 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How would most people say it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little cousin, most people · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** box · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 2 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:1 # text = Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your little cousin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* How would most people say it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:2 # text = How would most people say it? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | most people | box | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} a box lovely old wooden ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:o1:1 # text = a box lovely old wooden 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} a lovely old wooden box ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:o2:1 # text = a lovely old wooden box 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a wooden lovely old box ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:o3:1 # text = a wooden lovely old box 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} an old wooden lovely box ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t2:o4:1 # text = an old wooden lovely box 1 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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