--- title: how many blokes were squashed in that coach, fam? — Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passe… · tree and pragmatics description: how many blokes were squashed in that coach, fam? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/886-pg27200-part97/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/886-pg27200-part97/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi… how many blokes were squashed in that coach, fam? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** squash · **To what, where:** many blokes, coach This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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/886-pg27200-part97/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t8:1 # text = how many blokes were squashed in that coach, fam? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blokes bloke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | past · passive | | many blokes | | that coach and fam | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in coach=Trajectory | 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 {#o1} twelve squashed passengers in the back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t8:o1:1 # text = twelve squashed passengers in the back 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 passengers passenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | participle | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} twelve passengers and the driver ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t8:o2:1 # text = twelve passengers and the driver 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 passengers passenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} twelve passengers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t8:o3:1 # text = twelve passengers 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 passengers passenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} fourteen people ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:t8:o4:1 # text = fourteen people 1 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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