Test 6 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Bruv, was the gold bar heavy like a boulder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: gold bar

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bar	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bar	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bar	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	compound
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bar	amod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 boulder	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boulder	det
10	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the gold bar				Bruv vocative	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Hans couldn't even shift it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 shift	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shift	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shift	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 shift	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 shift	advmod
7	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shift	could	Hans	it					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer it=Patient

Option 2

Nope, it was just a pebble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 pebble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pebble	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pebble	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 pebble	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pebble	det
7	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, Hans could barely budge it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 budge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 budge	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 budge	aux
5	barely	barely	ADV	_	6 budge	advmod
6	budge	budge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 budge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	budge	could	Hans	it				barely property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, it was heavier than a mountain and nobody in the whole place could ever move it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 heavier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 move	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 move	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nobody	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 move	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 move	advmod
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavier	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than a mountain; heavy property	tree rules
2	move	could	nobody	place			ever		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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