Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little hou…

Peter nicked the babies idea and said it was his, lol.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter, idea · What happens: nick, say, be · To what, where: babies idea, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 321 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little house round 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 idea	compound
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nicked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 his	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 his	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 his	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 his	discourse
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nick	past	Peter	the babies idea	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	idea	Peter	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

Yeah, he did, and then he told everyone it was his idea from the start, classic

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 told	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 told	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 idea	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 idea	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 idea	nmod:poss
14	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	ccomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 start	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 start	det
17	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 idea	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 classic	punct
19	classic	classic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 idea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	he					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	he		everyone		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	is a	past		his idea and classic		the start		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, Slightly said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		it				slightly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, Michael came up with the babies idea and Peter took the credit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 idea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 idea	det
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 idea	compound
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Peter	cc
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 idea	conj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 credit	det
14	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Michael					with the babies idea and Peter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past		the credit					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he did, classic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 classic	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
6	classic	classic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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