Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana…

Blud, what did the stars want to do to the grown-ups?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blud, stars · What happens: do, want, grow

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 313 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana tied up, the stars call for the grown-ups to leave» 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stars	det
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 ups	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ups	det
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ups	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Blud		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the stars		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stars not said here	to the grown ups	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Make them go away quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	go away	infinitive	them = they not said here					away, quickly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Trick them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Stop them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Get them out of the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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