Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

So the Childe comes home after seven years, is he chill about it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Childe · What happens: come, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Childe	det
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chill	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chill	nsubj
12	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 comes	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chill	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the Childe				year	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Childe					about it; chill 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

Nah, the whole place was proper dead and he was gutted, mate, right to the bone

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gutted	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gutted	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gutted	aux:pass
12	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dead	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bone	punct
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 bone	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 bone	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bone	det
19	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole place					dead, properly property	tree rules
2	gut	past · passive		he					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the place was proper dead, gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	amod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the place					dead property	tree rules
2	gut	participle	the place not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was dead chill about it, proper relaxed, glad to be home at the Hall with his mates

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chill	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chill	amod
6	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chill	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glad	amod
11	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glad	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 relaxed	punct
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chill	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 home	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 home	cop
16	home	home	ADV	_	13 glad	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 Hall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Hall	det
19	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 glad	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 mates	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mates	nmod:poss
22	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 glad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead chill		about chill	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		the Hall	with his mates	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here			home property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, the hall was proper dead, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	amod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mate	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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