Test 4 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

Ah man, why'd the Childe chop his own dog's heid off?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: chop off · To what, where: heid

This is test 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. 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 man	discourse
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chop	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 chop	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 chop	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Childe	det
7	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chop	nsubj
8	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dog	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heid	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dog	case
13	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chop	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	8 chop	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	infinitive	man	Childe's own dog's heid					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heid=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

Cos the dog bit the worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 dog	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 worm	det
6	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the dog	the worm					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient

Option 2

Cos the dog had come out and the vow his dad made got broken, man, so

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broken	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vow	det
9	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broken	nsubj:pass
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vow	acl:relcl
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 come	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broken	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 so	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past · perfect	the dog		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	dog's dad	the vow not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product
3	break	past · passive		the vow	man vocative	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Cos it was the rule that the hound had to die if the vow was broke, like

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 rule	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rule	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hound	det
8	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 die	mark
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 broke	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vow	det
14	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broke	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broke	cop
16	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 die	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rule	punct
18	like	like	INTJ	_	5 rule	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	cos the rule	tree rules
2	have	past	the hound		tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	the hound not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the vow	broke property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the vow got broken, so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 broken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vow	det
3	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	5 broken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the vow					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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