Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little hou…
John and Michael got dragged off to graft, bare unfair!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drag off · To what, where: John, graft
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Michael | cc |
| 3 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 John | conj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 dragged | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 graft | case |
| 8 | graft | graft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unfair | punct |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 unfair | amod |
| 11 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 graft | amod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragged | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag off | past · passive | John and Michael | graft | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to graft=Destination |
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
Nah, they were just sent to fetch water and firewood for the boys and Wendy
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fetch | mark |
| 8 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | xcomp |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetch | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 firewood | cc |
| 11 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 boys | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fetch | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Wendy | cc |
| 16 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | they not said here | water and firewood | for the boys | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Theme for boy=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Nah, they got sent to the mines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mines | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mines | det |
| 8 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | they | the mines | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mine=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they were servants now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 servants | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 servants | cop |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 servants | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | servants | now | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, the pirates grabbed them and made them row the ship all day long
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grabbed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pirates | det |
| 4 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grabbed | nsubj |
| 5 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grabbed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grabbed | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 row | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grabbed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grabbed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | the pirates | them = they | day | long property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | past | the pirates not said here | pirates = pirate | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | row | infinitive | pirates = pirate not said here | the ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Location |
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