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title: State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed… — English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the C… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed following the broken vow. Exam question 4 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 4 · English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm…

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State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed following the broken vow.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Lambton · **What happens:** state, die, follow, break · **To what, where:** number, broken vow

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This is exam question 4 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, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/265-pg14241-part32/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:265-pg14241-part32:e4:1
# text = State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed following the broken vow.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of generations |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past | no Lambton |  |  |  | during generations | in bed | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | no Lambton *not said here* | the broken vow |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Nine years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:265-pg14241-part32:e4:o1:1
# text = Nine years
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nine generations of women

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:265-pg14241-part32:e4:o2:1
# text = Nine generations of women
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Nine generations of men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:265-pg14241-part32:e4:o3:1
# text = Nine generations of men
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seven generations of men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:265-pg14241-part32:e4:o4:1
# text = Seven generations of men
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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