Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

Sick, so what's the plan for beating the Worm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, plan · What happens: sick, be, beat · To what, where: plan, Worm

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 plan	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 beating	mark
9	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 plan	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Worm	det
11	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beating	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is a	present		the plan	tree rules
3	beat	gerund	the plan not said here	the Worm	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location worm=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Armour with spear-heads, then wait on the Rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 heads	case
3	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heads	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 spear	punct
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Armour	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 wait	advmod
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Rock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rock	det
11	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive	Armour with spear heads			the Rock	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 2

Hide in the Hall, then wait on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hall	det
4	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wait	advmod
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the Hall			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	wait	infinitive				Hall	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

Option 3

Spiked armour, then sit on the Rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiked	spike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 armour	amod
2	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 armour	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rock	det
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spike	participle							tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	Spiked armour not said here			the Rock	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

Option 4

Armour, then fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fight	advmod
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Armour	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	infinitive	Armour not said here				then		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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