Test 5 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

Was the half that fell in the river still alive, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: half · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: river

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 half	det
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Was	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 half	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	5 fell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the half						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the half			the river		alive property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in river=Location

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

Aye, it crawled ashore, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 crawled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crawled	nsubj
4	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	4 crawled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawled	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	it					mate vocative; ashore property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it got swept away, gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swept	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	aux:pass
5	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 swept	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 swept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep away	past · passive		it				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	go	participle							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Aye, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 sadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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