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title: Oi, did that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every… — English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, did that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every Sunday? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 264 «English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

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Oi, did that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every Sunday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** do, skip, go, fish · **To what, where:** Lambton lad, church

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 264 «English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock» 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/264-pg14241-part31/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t1:1
# text = Oi, did that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every Sunday?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Oi | that Lambton lad |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality |
| 2 | **skip** | present |  | church |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fish** | gerund |  |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he went to church, man, honest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, he went to church, man, honest
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he |  |  | church and man |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just Sundays, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, just Sundays, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, every Sunday, man, cursing like mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, every Sunday, man, cursing like mad
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like mad | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, every Sunday, cursing a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t1:o4:1
# text = Aye, every Sunday, cursing a lot
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | gerund | every Sunday | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

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