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CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT AT THE REWE SUPERMARKET |
I'm standing in the Rewe parking lot. It's evening and it's snowing. Saturday evening just before twenty. The Rewe is |
about to close. Mom forgot to buy eggs at lunchtime today because she wanted to bake a cake. Unfortunately, the neighbors |
didn't have any eggs either, so she sent me out to buy some more. Coincidentally, my boyfriend's mom also had to do some |
quick shopping at the supermarket, but she wanted to do it quickly by car because she didn't have time. My boyfriend knew |
this because we had chatted about it briefly, so his mother offered me a ride to the store and simply gave me a lift. When |
we arrived at the Rewe parking lot, I got out of the car. Distracted by the drive, I hadn't even noticed how beautifully |
decorated the Rewe store was for Christmas - I only noticed it now, because I had been talking to my friend about the |
new Brawlstars game the whole way, fascinated. Like me, he only noticed now that it was very Christmassy. Of course, |
tomorrow was the first day of Advent and many stores had already decorated their stores the Saturday before to attract |
more customers. There was also a small Christmas market in front of the entrance and my friend could hardly breathe in |
amazement. Fascinated, we looked at the many glittering Christmas artworks on the individual stalls. |
As we were looking at all the things in fascination, I noticed an elderly lady coming out of the Rewe store. Her shopping |
cart was full of all kinds of goods. She probably wanted to do her weekend shopping before closing time. I couldn't explain |
t, but something made me look after this lady with fascination, perhaps I was amazed by her unusually loaded shopping cart |
or how awkwardly she navigated it across the parking lot - I don't know exactly. I was still thinking that the road might |
be slippery in weather like this, but I couldn't finish my thought when a black car whizzed across the parking lot far too |
fast. I had a bad feeling. Some people in the distance were already jumping to the side in horror and cursing angrily. |
"There are little children here," I heard a worried mother shout as the car continued to approach menacingly. But what was |
to be expected happened: the car lost control due to the completely excessive speed. It spun in circles and before it came |
to a halt, it knocked over the woman's shopping cart again with full force. |
I can still remember today how all the goods in the lady's shopping cart flew through the air as if in slow motion and |
even during the flight I thought: "Oh dear, this is going to be a real mess!". It rattled, everything was on the ground. |
And all the attention of the surrounding passers-by was focused on this bizarre scene. What luck, nothing else happened |
to the woman. She stood there in horror and watched the scene. Only after a delay and wild gesticulation, after she had |
recovered from the shock, did words come out of her mouth and she shouted loudly that the driver should watch out. Full |
of fascination, we ran excitedly to the event and wanted to see everything up close. I asked the lady if everything was |
alright, she said: "Thank God", but when she looked at the disaster she said depressed: "Everything is on the floor, who's |
going to clean it up for me". I calmed the visibly agitated lady down and said that we would be happy to help her. But |
first I advised her to call the police. She did so immediately with her cell phone. In the meantime, something was stirring |
in the black car, which came to a halt a short distance later with the engine still running. |
A visibly shaken man got out of the car. Pale as a sheet and flustered, only stuttering words came out of his mouth such |
as: "gracious lady everything okay?". Visibly embarrassed, he looked at the scene he had caused. "i'm very sorry" he added. |
"Yes-yes, you probably don't believe that yourself. Driving far too fast here on this slippery road. And people everywhere. |
Be glad that nothing worse happened!" she slobbered over to him. Completely captivated by what was happening, we didn't |
even notice that the police had already arrived. Not quite as hurried as the black car but with flashing blue lights, |
they drove up and stopped next to the event. You could hear the police radio squawking from the police car as two police |
officers in full gear approached the scene. It was a woman and a man. "Good afternoon, did you call us?" the policeman |
said as he approached the woman. But then he surveyed the scene first. He put his arms demonstratively on his hips. Having |
seen enough, he continued after a few seconds, "Then tell me ...". And so the old lady, quite upset, told him how the |
accident had happened. |
The man just stood there quietly and only said something when the police officers wanted to know something about him. |
When the questioning was finished, the police officers turned to the surrounding crowd who were still watching in fascination. |
"Has anyone else seen anything?" he shouted into the crowd. Me and my friend immediately held out our hands, snapping them |
wildly and shouting "We". So the policeman came over to us and said: "Well then, boys, tell us." So we proudly told our |
version of events with shining eyes. When we had finished our story, he just said taciturnly: "Well then, that's a |
clear-cut case. The driver's insurance will pay for the damage" and then he turned to the driver. "And you'll get away |
with another misdemeanor for speeding". Finally, he thanked us again with: "Thanks guys, that helped us a lot. Your |
testimony will go on the record". We looked at each other with shining eyes and full of pride. We could hardly believe |
that we were allowed to testify as witnesses for the first time in our lives. |
We hadn't finished rejoicing when the old lady whispered exasperatedly: "Yes, and who's going to help me with all this |
stuff now?". "No problem, we said, we'd be happy to help" and eagerly started to put her things back in the shopping cart. |
Other passers-by also ran over and helped the lady, who was visibly embarrassed and thanked them for their help. "Jeez, |
you! The supermarket is about to close," my friend suddenly shouted. The trolley had already been put away anyway, so we |
left the old lady, who thanked us again from a distance, and hurried into the supermarket... |
Oh, how he wished he were the monster once more, so that he could kill the men and rescue her! |
Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor. |
And she seized the little Half-Chick by his one wing and threw him into a kettle of water on the fire. |
"I guess," said he at last, "that I'm not so smart as I thought I was, and I've got a lot to learn yet." |
You have made a hero of Buster Bear, because you believe Little Joe's story. |
Buster Bear had what looked to Blacky very much like a tin pail hanging from his neck! |
But it was only for a second, and then he was scurrying off as fast as a frightened Squirrel could. |
You see, he knows that Shadow can go wherever he can go. |
Farmer Brown's boy scowled down at them more puzzled than ever. |
"There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven. |
But his sister stood far off, not seeming to watch, but really watching carefully to see what would happen to the baby. |
That is the way that a habit which isn't bad in itself can become bad when it is carried too far. |
The thought made him so sorry and ashamed that he repented bitterly the evil he had done. |
And then there was his tail, that funny little tail he is so fond of jerking when he scolds. |
Buster Bear is a great hand to talk to himself when he thinks no one is around to overhear. |
Blacky didn't know what to make of it. |
Often, after David had made a song, his chief musician would sing with him, as the people gathered to worship God. |
With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. |
They therefore set the fox free. |
"Did'st thou cross his wake again?" |
He's a queer man, Captain Ahab--so some think--but a good one. |
They have something better than royal blood there. |
Once upon a time there was an honest shoemaker, who was very poor. |
Immediately the Crayfish was sent for. |
Instantly, the snail drew in his head, curled up in his shell, and left the lazy man sitting in a heap on the ground! |
Now it just happened that early as he was, some one was before Buster Bear. |
That was the way with Buster Bear. |
Then we will lead him to where Buster Bear is. |
"Oh, my precious, precious friend, if you will, you can save my life!" |
But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again. |
In short, it grew black; I knew what was threatened, and off it came. |
Raspberries, blackberries, or blueberries, either kind, will make him perfectly happy. |
Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. |
The old Alligator lashed with his tail and snapped with his jaws, but it was too late; the little Jackal was out of reach. |
And so it was that Buster Bear became a hero right away to most of them. |
"Will you give me the Emperor's gold crown for a song?" said the little Nightingale. |
He licked his lips hungrily as he spoke. |
Your very presence is distasteful to me. |
So, it being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above. |
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Benepar Corpus
Gold-standard constituency-parsing data for improving the Benepar
(benepar_en3) US-English parser, plus a larger raw US-English corpus for
generating further training material.
Contents
| File | Description | Items | License |
|---|---|---|---|
data/benepar_disagreements.ptb |
Manually corrected constituency trees (PTB bracketed format, one tree per line). | 38 | CC-BY-4.0 |
data/gutenberg_us_corpus.txt |
Clean US-English public-domain sentences (one per line). | 500 | Public Domain |
data/gutenberg_us_corpus_manifest.json |
Provenance and license for the corpus above. | — | Public Domain |
data/ASchoolEssay.txt |
The original fictional narrative essay the gold trees were derived from. | 1 | CC-BY-4.0 |
Provenance & licensing
- The corrected trees are original annotations, released under CC-BY-4.0. Each tree was reviewed against its source text and fixed for constituent-label, POS, phrasal-verb, coordination and clause-type errors.
- The Gutenberg corpus is derived from public-domain works by US-American authors (Herman Melville, Sara Cone Bryant, Thornton W. Burgess) via the NLTK Gutenberg sample, and is in the public domain. See the manifest for the exact sources.
Intended use
Fine-tuning / evaluating US-English constituency parsers. The trees load
directly with nltk.Tree.fromstring:
import nltk
with open("data/benepar_disagreements.ptb") as f:
trees = [nltk.Tree.fromstring(line) for line in f if line.strip()]
Loading the raw corpus
with open("data/gutenberg_us_corpus.txt") as f:
sentences = [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]
Example gold trees
Rendered constituency trees from the gold set:
“knocked over the shopping cart” — phrasal-verb particle lifted to the verb
“Mom forgot to buy eggs … because she wanted to bake a cake.”
“What luck, nothing else happened to the woman.” — exclamative fixed to S
“Fascinated, we looked at the many glittering Christmas artworks …”
Generated with the project's src/upload_to_huggingface.py.
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