Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

What were the four men lugging about?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: four men · What happens: lug

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lugging	obj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lugging	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lugging	nsubj
6	lugging	lug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 lugging	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lugging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lug	past · progressive	the four men					about property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

A long box, heavy as anything, they were struggling with it up the lane, proper lads

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 heavy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 struggling	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 struggling	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struggling	aux
11	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 box	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 struggling	obl
14	up	up	ADP	_	11 struggling	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lane	det
16	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struggling	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lads	punct
18	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lads	amod
19	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle up	past · progressive	box	the lane				with it	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bags of gold, quite heavy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bags	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	vocative

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

Option 3

A long wooden box, heavy as anything, wrapped up in old rope, lads

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 heavy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrapped	punct
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wrapped	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 rope	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rope	amod
14	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lads	punct
16	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 box	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap up	participle				old rope			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in rope=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A long box, heavy as anything, lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 heavy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lads	punct
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	conj

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

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