Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

Did Michael cry when Hook's name got said, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Michael, Hook · What happens: cry, say, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nsubj
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 said	advmod
5	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hook	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cry	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Michael		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		Hook's name	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner
3	name		Hook		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

he laughed

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yes, he began to cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 began	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	he						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4

yes, he cried a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he	a little					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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