Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little hou…

Why'd Peter go off on the Lost Boys for pretending?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: go off, lose, pretend

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 Boys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Boys	det
8	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Boys	amod
9	Boys	Boy	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 pretending	mark
11	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 go	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go off	would	Peter	on the Lost Boys	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on boy=Location
2	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	gerund	Peter not said here		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

Cos they were pretending to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 pretending	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretending	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	they						tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos pretending is a sin and Peter thinks all the boys should always tell the truth about everything

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	2 pretending	mark
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sin	acl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sin	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sin	det
5	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thinks	cc
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thinks	nsubj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sin	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 boys	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thinks	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 everything	case
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 truth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	a sin not said here			tree rules
2	is a	present		a sin		tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	Peter			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	should	all boys	the truth	about everything; always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about everything=Topic

Option 3

Cos they were pretending to be pirates and that is not allowed in his camp at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 pretending	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretending	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 pirates	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pirates	cop
7	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pretending	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 allowed	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 allowed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 allowed	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 allowed	advmod
12	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pretending	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 camp	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 camp	nmod:poss
15	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allowed	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	they				tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	they not said here	pirates			tree rules
3	not allow	present · passive		that	his camp	at all	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos make-believe is real to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 believe	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 real	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cos			tree rules
2	believe	infinitive	Cos not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present		him = he	real property	tree rules

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