Test 13 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pira…

What's Hook's gang told to do, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gang · What happens: be, tell, do, like · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gang	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hook	case
5	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	present		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Hook's gang	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hook's gang not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	infinitive	Hook's gang not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

gather the men and wait for the redskins to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gather	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 gather	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 redskins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 redskins	det
8	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 leave	mark
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	imperative	you not said here	the men		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here		for the redskins	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

search the tree roots now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roots	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roots	compound
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 search	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 search	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	imperative	you not said here	the tree roots			now		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

scatter and look for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 look	cc
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 scatter	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	imperative	you not said here						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive	you not said here					for them = they	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 4

spread out and search every tree for the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 spread	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 search	cc
4	search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 spread	conj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 search	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 boys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	imperative	you not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	search	infinitive	you not said here	every tree				for the boys	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Location for boy=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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