Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Oi, did that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every Sunday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: do, skip, go, fish · To what, where: Lambton lad, church

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 264 «English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lad	det
5	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lad	compound
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 skip	advmod
8	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skip	obj
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 skip	advcl
13	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 go	xcomp
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Sunday	det
15	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fishing	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	Oi	that Lambton lad		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	skip	present		church		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Agent
3	go	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fish	gerund			sunday	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he went to church, man, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 church	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			church and man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

Option 2

Nah, just Sundays, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 Sundays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 Sundays	advmod
4	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sundays	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, every Sunday, man, cursing like mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 Sunday	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Sunday	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Sunday	det
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sunday	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cursing	punct
8	cursing	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 man	acl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 mad	case
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cursing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	gerund	man not said here					like mad	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Aye, every Sunday, cursing a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 cursing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Sunday	det
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cursing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cursing	punct
6	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cursing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	gerund	every Sunday	a lot					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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