Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Wait, the milk trough thing, did the Worm just gobble the lot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, trough thing · What happens: wait, do, gobble · To what, where: Worm, lot

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trough	compound
5	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gobble	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Worm	det
10	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 gobble	advmod
12	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gobble	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	the trough thing not said here	the Worm	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Eventuality
3	gobble	present	the trough thing	the lot	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, every drop, nothing left, mint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 drop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 drop	det
4	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 drop	appos
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nothing	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mint	punct
9	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, all gone, proper dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gone	nsubj
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proper	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, it drank the lot, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lot	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	it	the lot					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Aye, every single drop, nothing left at all in the trough, proper mint

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 drop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 drop	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drop	amod
5	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 drop	conj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 nothing	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 left	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 trough	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trough	det
13	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mint	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mint	amod
16	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle				all		in the trough result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in trough=Result

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