Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

Blud, why'd John say "ay, ay, sir" then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blud · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» 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	6 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ay	punct
8	ay	ay	INTJ	_	10 ay	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ay	punct
10	ay	ay	INTJ	_	6 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sir	punct
12	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ay	appos
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sir	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ay	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

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

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

to answer Peter like a sailor and show he obeyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 answer	mark
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 show	advcl
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sailor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 show	cc
8	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 obeyed	nsubj
10	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive		Peter	like a sailor	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality
2	show	present				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	obey	past	Peter			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to answer Peter like a sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 answer	mark
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sailor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive			Peter			like a sailor	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality

Option 3

because Peter ordered him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 ordered	mark
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Peter		him = he				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

to answer Peter like a proper sailor on Hook's old ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 answer	mark
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 sailor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sailor	amod
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 ship	case
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ship	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hook	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ship	amod
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sailor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive			Peter			like a proper sailor on Hook's old ship	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality

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