Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

how mad was the treasure, like was it massive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: treasure · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 treasure	det
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mad	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 massive	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 massive	mark
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 massive	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 massive	nsubj
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mad	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the treasure					mad property	tree rules
2	is	past	treasure					massive 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 · ✓ the right answer

Proper massive, a prodigious one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 massive	advmod
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 massive	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Proper massive, a huge pile of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 massive	advmod
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pile	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pile	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pile	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pile	amod
6	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pile	nmod

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

Option 3

Massive, like absolutely enormous, more than he could ever carry in one trip home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 enormous	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 enormous	case
4	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	5 enormous	advmod
5	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Massive	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 enormous	conj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 carry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carry	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 carry	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 carry	advmod
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 more	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 trip	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 trip	nummod
15	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obl
16	home	home	ADV	_	12 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	he			one trip	ever	home property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in trip=Location

Option 4

Proper massive, a huge chest of gold coins and jewels that filled three carts

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 massive	advmod
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coins	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 massive	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chest	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chest	amod
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coins	compound
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chest	nmod
9	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 filled	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jewels	cc
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 coins	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 filled	nsubj
13	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 carts	nummod
15	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 filled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	massive chest coins and jewels	three carts					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient

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