Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly…

wasn't Curly just getting blamed for stuff all the time

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be, blame

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 318 «Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly on in the dark while Tink lures Wendy away and the pirates fire Long Tom» 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	3 Curly	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 Curly	advmod
3	Curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 blamed	advmod
5	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 blamed	aux:pass
6	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Curly	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blamed	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blamed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past						curly property	tree rules
2	blame	gerund · passive					time	for stuff	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for stuff=Attribute

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

yep, he'd step up even when it wasn't him, big L, so he's basically always the one in trouble

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 step	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 step	aux
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 step	compound:prt
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 him	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 him	advmod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 L	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 L	amod
15	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
20	basically	basically	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 one	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 step	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 trouble	case
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step up	would	he				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past	it	him = he			tree rules
3	is a	present	he	the one	trouble	always, basically property	tree rules

Option 2

yep, he'd step up even when it wasn't him, big L, and the boys never even thanked him

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 step	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 step	aux
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 step	compound:prt
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 him	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 him	advmod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 L	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 L	amod
15	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thanked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thanked	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boys	det
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thanked	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 thanked	advmod
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 thanked	advmod
22	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 step	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thanked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	step up	would	he			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past	it	him = he		tree rules
3	not thank speech: thank	past	the boys		him = he	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

yep, he got blamed for stuff he didn't do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 blamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blamed	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blamed	aux:pass
5	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 stuff	case
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuff	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past · passive		he				for stuff	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for stuff=Attribute
2	not do	past · do-support	he	stuff not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he'd step up even when it wasn't him, big L

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 step	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 step	aux
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 step	compound:prt
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 him	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 him	advmod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 step	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 L	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 L	amod
15	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 step	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step up	would	he						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past	it	him = he					tree rules

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