Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…
Did they reckon that Friday was a mint day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, Friday · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: mint day
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 312 «Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the shadow, and the parents blame themselves for that Friday» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckon | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 day | mark |
| 5 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 day | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckon | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | they | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Friday | a mint day | 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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, it was the worst day ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 day | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 day | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the worst day | ever | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, it was a great day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 day | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a great day | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, a mint day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, it was a dull Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 Friday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Friday | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Friday | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Friday | det |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Friday | amod |
| 7 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a dull Friday | 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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