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title: nan's shopping, 1 massive bag or 2 smaller ones — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: nan's shopping, 1 massive bag or 2 smaller ones Test 13 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 13 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

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nan's shopping, 1 massive bag or 2 smaller ones

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nan · **What happens:** shop

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This is test 13 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» of the everyday 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/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t13:1
# text = nan's shopping, 1 massive bag or 2 smaller ones
1	nan	nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shop** |  | nan |  |  |  |  |  | nom shopping «act intransitive»: poss=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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Drag the big bag on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t13:o1:1
# text = Drag the big bag on the ground
1	Drag	drag	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | imperative | you *not said here* | the big bag |  | the ground |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two bags, one in each hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t13:o2:1
# text = Two bags, one in each hand
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One big heavy bag in one hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t13:o3:1
# text = One big heavy bag in one hand
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One bag balanced on your head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t13:o4:1
# text = One bag balanced on your head
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **balance** | participle · passive |  | One bag |  | your head |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on head=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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