Test 13 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

Was there loads of stuff in that waggon, bruv?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 there	cop
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 there	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 stuff	case
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 waggon	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 waggon	det
8	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuff	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waggon	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	loads of stuff in that waggon and bruv	there					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

crates, bales and a whole load of cloth and silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crates	crate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bales	punct
3	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 crates	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 load	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 load	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 load	amod
7	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crates	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 load	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 silk	cc
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	conj

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

Option 2

boxes, bales and a big chest of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bales	punct
3	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boxes	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chest	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chest	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chest	amod
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boxes	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 silver	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chest	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

boxes and bales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bales	cc
3	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boxes	conj

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

Option 4

sacks of grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 grain	case
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sacks	nmod

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

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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