Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 11: Hook plots a poisoned cake,…

Did Nibs see a fox or a bird, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nibs · What happens: see · To what, where: fox

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
2	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 bird	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fox	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fox	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	Nibs	a fox or a bird and bruv					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=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

a great white bird

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	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a great white bird that sang of Peter

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	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bird	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Peter	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl

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

Option 3

a wolf in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wolf	nmod

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

Option 4

a huge grey bird with a long pointed beak

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	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 beak	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beak	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beak	amod
8	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beak	amod
9	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «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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