Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 11: Hook plots a poisoned cake,…

Did the boys reckon Wendy was a bird or a lady, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys, Wendy · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: bird

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 320 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 11: Hook plots a poisoned cake, and Tootles shoots Wendy» 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boys	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 lady	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lady	det
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the boys						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Wendy	a bird or a lady and mate					tree rules

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

a lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a pretty little bird that could sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 little	advmod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sing	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sing	aux
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bird	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	a little bird						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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