Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

What's with the blood turning the river all red?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: river

This is test 10 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 blood	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blood	cop
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 blood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 blood	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turning	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 turning	obj
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 all	amod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 blood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with the blood	tree rules
2	turn	gerund	the blood not said here	the river					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent river=Theme all=Result

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

It's the Wise Woman's potion, proper odd, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 potion	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 potion	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
4	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Woman	amod
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 potion	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Woman	case
7	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 odd	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 odd	amod
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 potion	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 potion	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the Wise Woman's potion and bruv					tree rules

Option 2

That's the Childe's blood, proper gross, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 blood	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blood	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Childe	det
4	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 blood	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Childe	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gross	amod
9	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the Childe's blood and proper gross and mate					tree rules

Option 3

Dunno, bruv, paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paint	punct
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	parataxis

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That's the Worm's blood, proper gross, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 blood	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blood	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Worm	det
4	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Worm	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gross	amod
9	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the Worm's blood and proper gross and bruv					tree rules

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