Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…

Why didn't Dad's mate hear about the shadow, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: not do, hear

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mate	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Dad	case
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 shadow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	7 hear	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	Dad's mate					about the shadow	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about shadow=Stimulus

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

cos it was secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 secret	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	it					secret property	tree rules

Option 2

cos Mum thought he'd laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	aux
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Mum						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	laugh	would	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos Mum didn't want him to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Mum	him = he					tree rules
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos Mum reckoned he'd just blame the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	PUNCT	_	3 reckoned	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blame	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 blame	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 blame	advmod
7	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckoned	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	Mum						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	blame	would	he	the dog					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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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