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title: Ayy, what's the strong geezer say about the first lot of gold? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayy, what's the strong geezer say about the first lot of gold? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water…

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Ayy, what's the strong geezer say about the first lot of gold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ayy · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** strong geezer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1700-pg640-part24/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:t7:1
# text = Ayy, what's the strong geezer say about the first lot of gold?
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ayy | the strong geezer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ayy |  |  |  |  | about the first lot of gold | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is more than the sack can hold easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:t7:o1:1
# text = It is more than the sack can hold easily
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | can | the sack |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It scarcely covers the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:t7:o2:1
# text = It scarcely covers the bottom
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | It | the bottom |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It barely fills the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:t7:o3:1
# text = It barely fills the floor
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | It | the floor |  |  |  | barely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It just covers the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:t7:o4:1
# text = It just covers the top
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | It | the top |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Destination |

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**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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