Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly…

did the pirates just start singing or what

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pirates · What happens: start, sing

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pirates	det
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 start	advmod
5	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 start	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · do-support	the pirates						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the pirates not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that's the same creepy song every time, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 song	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 song	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 song	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 song	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the same creepy song and mate			time		tree rules

Option 2

nah, just shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shouting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 shouting	advmod
4	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they sing a different song every night, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	they	a different song			night	bruv obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

yeah, lol, they always do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 lol	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lol	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they					always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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