Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Why'd he chuck the thing down a well instead of back in the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: chuck down · To what, where: thing, river

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 chuck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chuck	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	nsubj
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 chuck	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 chuck	advmod
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 back	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	back	back	ADV	_	4 chuck	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck down	would	he	the thing		the river		well property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in river=Destination

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

He was skint, didn't fancy the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	cop
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancy	punct
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fancy	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fancy	advmod
7	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					skint property	tree rules
2	not fancy	past · do-support		the river					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was dead lazy and couldn't be bothered to walk all the way back to the river

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	amod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bothered	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bothered	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bothered	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bothered	aux:pass
9	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lazy	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bothered	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 way	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl:unmarked
15	back	back	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	could · passive							tree rules
2	not walk	to-infinitive		all way				to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead lazy, couldn't be bothered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	amod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bothered	punct
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bothered	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bothered	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bothered	aux:pass
9	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	could · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4

Cos the river was too dirty, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 dirty	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mate	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dirty	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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