Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a hous…

Did the boys reckon the trees were a waste?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 322 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a house and she agrees to be their mother» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waste	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waste	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 waste	det
9	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
10	?	?	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	the trees	a waste					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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they thought they were a waste of time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waste	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waste	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 waste	det
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	a waste			time		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they were the bees' knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 knees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knees	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knees	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bees	det
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knees	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 bees	case
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the bees's knees					tree rules

Option 3

nah, they were the cat's pyjamas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 pyjamas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pyjamas	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pyjamas	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pyjamas	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cat	case
8	pyjamas	pyjama	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the cat's pyjamas					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, they were a bit rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 rubbish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rubbish	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbish	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rubbish	compound
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	bit rubbish					tree rules

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