Test 6 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…
How many gen'rations did the curse last, bruy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many gen'rations · What happens: do · To what, where: curse
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gen'rations | amod |
| 3 | gen'rations | gen'ration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 curse | det |
| 6 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bruy | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 last | punct |
| 9 | bruy | bruy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many gen'rations | the curse | last bruy obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Eventuality |
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
Seven, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mate | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seven | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Seven generations, man, yeah
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 generations | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 generations | punct |
| 6 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 generations | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nine, man, nine generations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 man | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nine | punct |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 generations | punct |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 generations | nummod |
| 6 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 man | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nine years, man, I think
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 | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | years man vocative | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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