Exam question 4 · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed following the broken vow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Lambton · What happens: state, die, follow, break · To what, where: number, broken vow

This is exam question 4 of lesson 265 «English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm and his vow is broken» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 generations	case
5	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 died	obl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 Lambton	det
9	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 generations	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	obl
13	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 died	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vow	det
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 vow	amod
16	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 following	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of generations			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	die	past	no Lambton		during generations	in bed	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute
3	follow	gerund	no Lambton not said here	the broken vow			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme
4	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Nine years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nine generations of women

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 generations	nummod
2	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 women	case
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 generations	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nine generations of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 generations	nummod
2	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 generations	nmod

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

Option 4

Seven generations of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 generations	nummod
2	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 generations	nmod

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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