Test 7 · ★ · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

How did Mr Darling nick the lady in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Mr Darling nick, end

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nick	compound
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nick	compound
5	nick	Nick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Mr Darling nick			in the end	the lady obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality

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

Beat the others with a cab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cab	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cab	det
6	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	the others				with a cab	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent other=Patient with cab=Instrument

Option 2

He bribed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bribed	nsubj
2	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bribed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	past	He	her = she					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nipped in first in a cab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nipped	nip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Nipped	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cab	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cab	det
6	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	participle				a cab			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in first=Trajectory

Option 4

Got there first by cab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Got	advmod
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Got	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 cab	case
5	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past				there		by cab; first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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