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

Was Dad being peak, or what, when he poured his meds in Nana's bowl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, pour · To what, where: Dad, peak, meds, bowl

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dad	cop
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peak	csubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 peak	cop
4	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 peak	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poured	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 poured	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 poured	nsubj
11	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 meds	nmod:poss
13	meds	med	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poured	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 bowl	case
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bowl	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Nana	case
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 peak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		Dad		tree rules
2	is a	gerund		peak		tree rules
3	pour	past	he	his meds	Nana's bowl	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent med=Patient

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

He was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said it was a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 3

He said it was a prank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prank	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prank	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prank	det
6	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a prank					tree rules

Option 4

A joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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