Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly…

what's a pluperfect? sounds like a bad word

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pluperfect · What happens: be, sound · To what, where: pluperfect

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pluperfect	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pluperfect	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pluperfect	det
4	pluperfect	pluperfect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pluperfect	punct
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 word	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a pluperfect					tree rules
2	sound	present	a pluperfect					like a bad word	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

it's a grammar tense, like "had woken", so it's not a swear

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tense	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tense	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tense	det
4	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	compound
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 woken	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woken	aux
10	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tense	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swear	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 swear	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swear	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 swear	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 swear	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 swear	det
18	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a grammar tense and a swear	tree rules
2	wake in a quote	past · perfect			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not is a	present	it	a swear	tree rules

Option 2

it's a kind of boat the pirates use, like a galleon, I think

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 boat	case
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pirates	det
8	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 galleon	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 galleon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 galleon	det
13	galleon	galleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
16	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind	of boat	tree rules
2	use	present	the pirates	a galleon		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent galleon=Patient
3	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it's a grammar tense, like "had woken", so it's not a swear, and you'll see it in lots of books

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tense	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tense	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tense	det
4	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	compound
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 woken	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woken	aux
10	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tense	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swear	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 swear	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swear	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 swear	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 swear	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 swear	det
18	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tense	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 lots	case
26	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 books	case
28	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a grammar tense and a swear		tree rules
2	wake in a quote	past · perfect				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not is a	present	it	a swear		tree rules
4	see	future	you	swear	lots of books	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

it's a grammar tense, like "had woken", so it's not a swear word, just a tricky bit of English

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tense	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tense	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tense	det
4	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	compound
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 woken	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woken	aux
10	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tense	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 woken	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 word	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	19 word	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 word	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 word	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 word	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
18	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 word	compound
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 bit	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
23	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bit	amod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 word	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 English	case
26	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a grammar tense and a swear word	tree rules
2	wake in a quote	past · perfect			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	swear	infinitive			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	present	it	a swear word	tree rules

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