Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

What's the Wise Woman's deal, is she actually useful or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal, Wise Woman · What happens: be, deal

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 useful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
4	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Woman	amod
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Woman	case
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 useful	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 useful	nsubj
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 useful	advmod
12	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 useful	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Wise Woman's deal		tree rules
2	is	present		actually, useful property	tree rules
3	deal		the Wise Woman		nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

She's canny, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 canny	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canny	cop
3	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 canny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					canny property	tree rules

Option 2

She's canny, tells him bits, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 canny	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canny	cop
3	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canny	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tells	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					canny property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	She not said here	bits and mate	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bit=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She's a witch, gives him a plan, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 witch	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 witch	punct
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gives	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a witch					tree rules
2	give	present	a witch	a plan and sound	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plan=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She's canny, gives him the whole plan, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 canny	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canny	cop
3	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gives	punct
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canny	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plan	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					canny property	tree rules
2	give	present	She not said here	the whole plan and sound	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plan=Theme

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