Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

the Englishmen paid all that gold, was it, like, a lot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Englishmen · What happens: pay, be · To what, where: gold

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Englishmen	det
2	Englishmen	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 gold	det:predet
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 it	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	3 paid	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lot	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the Englishmen	all gold				a lot obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset
2	is a	past		gold					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

yeah, a hundred-weight, massive, they paid him right then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 massive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weight	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weight	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weight	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 massive	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 massive	punct
8	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 paid	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	nsubj
11	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 massive	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	obj
13	right	right	ADV	_	14 then	advmod
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	weight			then		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 2

yeah, a hundred-weight of gold, massive, the lot in a sack

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 weight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weight	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weight	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weight	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weight	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 massive	punct
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weight	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lot	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weight	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sack	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lot	nmod

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

Option 3

nah, a hundred-weight, tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 weight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weight	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weight	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weight	amod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a hundred-weight, massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 weight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weight	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weight	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weight	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 massive	punct
8	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weight	amod

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

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