Test 9 · ★ · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…
What was Mr Darling dead proud of, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, innit
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 3 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proud | amod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 innit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | proud property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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
Being exactly the same as all the other fathers in the square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 same | cop |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 same | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 fathers | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 fathers | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fathers | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fathers | amod |
| 9 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 same | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 square | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 square | det |
| 12 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fathers | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | as all other fathers in the square; exactly, same property | tree rules |
Option 2
Being just like the neighbours in every single way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 neighbours | cop |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 neighbours | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 neighbours | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighbours | det |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 way | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neighbours | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | every single way | like the neighbours | tree rules |
Option 3
Having a fine big house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a fine big house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Being just like the neighbours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 neighbours | cop |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 neighbours | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 neighbours | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighbours | det |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | like the neighbours | tree rules |
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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