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title: Was the worm dead hungry or just being a pain? — English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the worm dead hungry or just being a pain? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

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Was the worm dead hungry or just being a pain?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1970-pg7439-part29/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t4:1
# text = Was the worm dead hungry or just being a pain?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	csubj	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the worm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | a pain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Naughty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = Naughty
1	Naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Very hungry too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = Very hungry too
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Dead hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = Dead hungry
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = Sleepy
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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