Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

How much water did the demon lug in, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: much water · What happens: do · To what, where: demon lug

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lug	det
6	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lug	compound
7	lug	lug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	much water	the demon lug					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lug=Eventuality

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

barrels, loads and loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loads	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 barrels	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 loads	cc
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 barrels	conj

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

Option 2

gallons, quite a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 gallons	punct
3	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	5 lot	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gallons	conj

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

Option 3

like a hundred barrels of cold water, over and over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 barrels	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 barrels	nummod
4	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barrels	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 over	punct
9	over	over	ADV	_	4 barrels	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 over	cc
11	over	over	ADV	_	9 over	conj

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

Option 4

loads and loads and loads, filling the room right up to the ceiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 loads	cc
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 loads	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 loads	cc
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 loads	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 filling	punct
7	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 loads	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filling	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 up	advmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	14 ceiling	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ceiling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ceiling	det
14	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	gerund	loads and loads and loads not said here	the room				up the ceiling	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient

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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