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title: how mad was the treasure, like was it massive? — English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swa… · tree and pragmatics
description: how mad was the treasure, like was it massive? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…

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how mad was the treasure, like was it massive?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/249-pg14241-part16/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t6:1
# text = how mad was the treasure, like was it massive?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper massive, a prodigious one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t6:o1:1
# text = Proper massive, a prodigious one
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper massive, a huge pile of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t6:o2:1
# text = Proper massive, a huge pile of gold
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Massive, like absolutely enormous, more than he could ever carry in one trip home

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t6:o3:1
# text = Massive, like absolutely enormous, more than he could ever carry in one trip home
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper massive, a huge chest of gold coins and jewels that filled three carts

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:249-pg14241-part16:t6:o4:1
# text = Proper massive, a huge chest of gold coins and jewels that filled three carts
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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