Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…

Dead funny, how did Peter get grub for the kids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: get · To what, where: grub

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 funny	conj
8	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 kids	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kids	det
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Peter	grub				for the kids	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grub=Theme for kid=Beneficiary

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 stole from the birds

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 birds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he					from the birds	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he snatched it off birds flying past the window

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 snatched	nsubj
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 snatched	compound:prt
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snatched	obj
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 birds	acl
7	past	past	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch off	past	he	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary bird=Theme
2	fly	gerund	birds not said here			the window			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past window=Trajectory

Option 3

he went down to the shore and begged the mermaids for it

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mermaids	det
10	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 begged	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	he					to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	beg speech: request	past	he not said here		the mermaids			for shore	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent mermaid=Recipient for it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

snatched it off birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 snatched	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 snatched	compound:prt
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 snatched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch off	past		it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary bird=Theme

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