Test 8 · ★ · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

Aye, was it, like, a long time back then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	10 time	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 time	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	10 time	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 time	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct

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

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, it was a hundred and thirty years ago, when the old king still ruled the land

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hundred	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hundred	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 ruled	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ago	cc
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 hundred	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ruled	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 ruled	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 king	amod
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruled	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 ruled	advmod
17	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a hundred					tree rules
2	rule	past	the old king	the land			still		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, about two hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a hundred and thirty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thirty	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, a hundred and thirty years, man, like, way back before the modern times

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thirty	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 man	compound
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 years	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	9 man	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 times	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 times	det
17	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 times	amod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 back	obl

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

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