Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: have, be · To what, where: loads

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 castle	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grub	case
7	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 empty	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 empty	nsubj
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the castle	loads of grub					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
2	is	past	castle					empty property	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

Tons of food on tables but everyone had run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 run	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 food	case
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tons	nmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 tables	case
5	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 food	nmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 everyone	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 food	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux
9	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · perfect	Tons of food on tables						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Plenty of bread but no people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 bread	case
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plenty	nmod
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 people	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Plenty	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Loads of grub but nobody there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 grub	case
3	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 nobody	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 grub	conj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 nobody	advmod

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

Option 4

Loads of grub and a fire roaring in every room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 grub	case
3	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fire	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grub	conj
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fire	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund	a fire not said here			every room			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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