Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…

Did Michael get the baby sister he wanted, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Michael · What happens: get, want · To what, where: baby sister

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	compound
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Michael	the baby sister					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
2	want	past	Michael	the baby sister not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sister=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

nah, John said no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John	more					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a little sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sister	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

yeah, Mum got him a sister but John said no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sister	det
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Mum	a sister	him = he				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary sister=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	John	more					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

Option 4

nah, Mum said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

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