Test 14 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…

Ngl, what did John do when he got the flying thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: John · What happens: do, get, fly · To what, where: flying thing

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 316 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly and set off for Neverland» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	John		Ngl vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	get	past	John	the flying thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

went on about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 went	compound:prt
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past						about it	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location

Option 2

showed off to all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 showed	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 showed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past			all				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient

Option 3

wanted more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

told everyone twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 told	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			everyone			twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

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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