Test 11 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

Did the worm have any mates in the river, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: worm · What happens: have · To what, where: mates, river

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worm	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 worm	det
3	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mates	det
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	4 have	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the worm	any mates		the river			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=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

Aye, there were loads of worms living in the river, bruy, like a whole family

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 worms	case
7	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loads	nmod
8	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 worms	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 living	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruy	punct
13	bruy	bruy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 river	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 family	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 family	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 family	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 family	amod
18	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	loads of worms			there		like a whole family	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	gerund	worms not said here			the river and bruy			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

Option 2

Aye, there was a second one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a second one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was just the one worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 worm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worm	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 worm	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 worm	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worm	compound
8	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the one worm					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it was just the one worm, but its mates lived in the caves nearby, man

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 worm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worm	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 worm	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 worm	det
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 worm	nummod
8	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lived	cc
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mates	nmod:poss
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worm	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 caves	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 caves	det
16	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obl
17	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the one worm and man					tree rules
2	live	past	its mates			the caves		nearby property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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