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title: Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicia… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

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Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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/1939-pg7277-part76/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t6:1
# text = Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the castle | loads of grub |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | castle |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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Tons of food on tables but everyone had run off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t6:o1:1
# text = Tons of food on tables but everyone had run off
1	Tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past · perfect | Tons of food on tables |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Plenty of bread but no people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t6:o2:1
# text = Plenty of bread but no people
1	Plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Loads of grub but nobody there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t6:o3:1
# text = Loads of grub but nobody there
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Loads of grub and a fire roaring in every room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t6:o4:1
# text = Loads of grub and a fire roaring in every room
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | gerund | a fire *not said here* |  |  | every room |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |

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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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