Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…
Mum ran out to look for his body, yeah? Was it there?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, body · What happens: run out, look, be
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Mum ran out to look for his body, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 ran | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | Mum | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | for his body | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for body=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Was it there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | body | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
yeah, the body was there in the garden and Mum fainted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fainted | cc |
| 11 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fainted | nsubj |
| 12 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the body | the garden | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | faint | past | Mum | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
yeah, it was there in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | the garden | there property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, it was lying in the street by the lamp post all night long
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 post | csubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lamp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lamp | det |
| 11 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 12 | post | post | X | _ | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 post | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 post | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | it | the street | by the lamp | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, weren't there, just a shooting star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 star | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 star | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 star | det |
| 9 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 star | compound |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a shooting star obl; there property | tree rules |
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