Test 1 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

Yo, did the Childe actually kill the worm or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Childe · What happens: do, kill · To what, where: worm

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Childe	det
5	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 kill	advmod
7	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worm	det
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 worm	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	kill	present	the Childe	the worm				actually property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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

Yeah, he chopped it up with a spade and dumped it in a pit, bruy, like

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 chopped	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 spade	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spade	det
9	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dumped	cc
11	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chopped	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dumped	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pit	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pit	det
15	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dumped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruy	punct
17	bruy	bruy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pit	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
19	like	like	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	he	it				with a spade	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spade=Instrument
2	dump	past	he not said here	spade		a pit and bruy			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pit=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, the Childe never touched it, man, it was the dog that did it all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Childe	det
4	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 touched	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 touched	advmod
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dog	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dog	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dog	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	the Childe	it	man and the dog obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	is a	past	Childe	the dog		tree rules
3	do	past	the dog	Childe		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he chopped it in two, man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 man	nummod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	he	it				in two man	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in man=Location

Option 4

Nah, he let it go, like, man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive						man vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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