Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Honest, was that whole Worm story mental or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mental	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mental	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 mental	mark
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Worm	amod
6	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mental	compound
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 mental	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						mental property	tree rules

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

Proper mental, man, every bit of it, and I'm buzzin' for the next bit of the story

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mental	advmod
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mental	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buzzin	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 buzzin	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 buzzin	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 buzzin	cop
14	buzzin	buzzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 buzzin	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 bit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bit	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bit	amod
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buzzin	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 story	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	buzzin				for the next bit of the story	tree rules

Option 2

Bit mad, man, I'm buzzin' for the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mad	obl:unmarked
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mad	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 buzzin	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 buzzin	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 buzzin	cop
8	buzzin	buzzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mad	conj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 buzzin	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buzzin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	buzzin			for the end		tree rules

Option 3

Proper mental, man, I'm keen for more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mental	advmod
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mental	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keen	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 keen	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 keen	cop
8	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 more	case
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 keen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mental man					for more; keen property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proper mental, man, I'm buzzin' for the next bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mental	advmod
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mental	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 buzzin	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 buzzin	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 buzzin	cop
8	buzzin	buzzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 buzzin	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 bit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	buzzin					tree rules

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