Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

Why couldn't a hundred blokes shift the iron horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hundred blokes · What happens: shift · To what, where: iron horse

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 shift	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shift	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hundred	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 blokes	nummod
6	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shift	nsubj
7	shift	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	compound
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shift	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	could	hundred blokes	the iron horse					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer horse=Patient

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

Cos the blokes were too weak and it was dead heavy, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 weak	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blokes	det
3	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 weak	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heavy	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heavy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heavy	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heavy	amod
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weak	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weak	punct
13	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 weak	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blokes					weak property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Cos it was bolted down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 bolted	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bolted	aux:pass
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 bolted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt down	past · passive		it					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: subject=Patient

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

Cos it was dead heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 heavy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	amod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

It was just too huge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 huge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 huge	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 huge	advmod
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					huge property	tree rules

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