Test 2 · ★ · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

Who was the proper boffin about stocks and shares in that house?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 boffin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boffin	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boffin	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boffin	amod
5	boffin	boffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 stocks	case
7	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boffin	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shares	cc
9	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stocks	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shares	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boffin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the proper boffin				about stocks and shares in that house	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

Mrs Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat

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

Option 2

Mr Banks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Banks	compound
2	Banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mr Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat

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

Option 4

The neighbour who lived at number 15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 neighbour	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 number	case
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
7	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 number	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the neighbour			number			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at number=Location

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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