Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…

Ayy, what's the strong geezer say about the first lot of gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy · What happens: be, say · To what, where: strong geezer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 geezer	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 geezer	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 geezer	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ayy	appos
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 lot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lot	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 lot	amod
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lot	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ayy	the strong geezer					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Ayy					about the first lot of gold	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is more than the sack can hold easily

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	3 more	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 more	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 hold	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 more	advcl
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					more property	tree rules
2	hold	can	the sack					easily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It scarcely covers the bottom

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	3 covers	nsubj
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 covers	advmod
3	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	It	the bottom				scarcely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Destination

Option 3

It barely fills the floor

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	3 fills	nsubj
2	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 fills	advmod
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	It	the floor				barely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient

Option 4

It just covers the top

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	3 covers	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 covers	advmod
3	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	It	the top					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Destination

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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