Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pira…
Why'd Hook stop Starkey shooting, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hook, stop · To what, where: Starkey shooting
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 319 «Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pirates hunt for the lost boys' hidden home» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Hook | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hook | aux |
| 3 | Hook | hook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | advcl |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shooting | compound |
| 6 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fam | punct |
| 8 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shooting | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hook | would | you not said here | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | imperative | you not said here | Starkey shooting and fam | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality shooting=Eventuality |
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 pistol has no more powder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pistol | det |
| 2 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 powder | det |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 powder | amod |
| 6 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the pistol | no more powder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the shot would bring redskins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shot | det |
| 2 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | the shot | redskins | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent redskin=Theme |
Option 3
the shot would wake the crew and bring the boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shot | det |
| 2 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wake | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wake | aux |
| 4 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wake | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wake | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | would | the shot | the crew | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crew=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | the shot not said here | the boys | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination |
Option 4
the shot would bring the redskins and the crocodile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shot | det |
| 2 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 redskins | det |
| 6 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crocodile | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crocodile | det |
| 9 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 redskins | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | the shot | the redskins and the crocodile | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent redskin=Theme |
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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