Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

so Esben's brothers got loads of gold to carry, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: get, carry · To what, where: loads

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
2	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brothers	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Esben	case
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Esben's brothers	loads of gold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
2	carry	to-infinitive	Esben's brothers not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1

all the gold in the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gold	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	nmod

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

Option 2

not much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

as much as they could lug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 lug	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lug	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lug	aux
6	lug	lug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lug	could	they						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a few coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coins	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coins	amod
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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