Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many cows · What happens: hang on, have, give · To what, where: milk

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cows	amod
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	many cows			tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	many cows not said here	milk	day	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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

Nine kye, like proper nine, marra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	nummod
2	kye	kye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nine	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 nine	case
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nine	amod
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 marra	punct
8	marra	marra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kye	conj

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

Option 2

Seven kye, like proper seven, marra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	nummod
2	kye	kye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seven	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 seven	case
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 seven	advmod
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 marra	punct
8	marra	marra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kye	conj

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

Option 3

Nine kye, like proper nine, marra, from the byre and the field both

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	nummod
2	kye	kye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nine	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 nine	case
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nine	amod
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kye	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 marra	punct
8	marra	marra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kye	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 byre	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 byre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 byre	det
12	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kye	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 field	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 field	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 byre	conj
16	both	both	ADV	_	12 byre	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nine cows, mate, proper nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cows	nummod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cows	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nine	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nine	amod
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cows	conj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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