Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…

Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: dance, not be · To what, where: back, Michael

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dancing	aux
3	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 dancing	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Michael	case
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dancing	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 he	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 he	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dancing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	Dad			Dad's back		with Michael; round property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location
2	not is a	past		Michael					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

yeah, he was on his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 back	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 back	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his back			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was a proper romp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 romp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 romp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 romp	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 romp	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 romp	amod
7	romp	romp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper romp					tree rules

Option 3

nah, he was dancing alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 dancing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	he					alone property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, it was a proper romp round the room with Michael yelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 romp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 romp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 romp	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 romp	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 romp	amod
7	romp	romp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 romp	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 yelling	case
12	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 yelling	compound
13	yelling	yelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper romp				round the room with Michael yelling	tree rules

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