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

Was Peter being a proper bossy boots?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: be · To what, where: Peter, proper bossy boots

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Peter	cop
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boots	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boots	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boots	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
6	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 boots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter					tree rules
2	is a	gerund	Peter	a proper bossy boots					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 measured everything and checked it all twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 measured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 measured	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measured	nsubj
4	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 measured	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 checked	cc
7	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 measured	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 checked	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 twice	advmod
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 checked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	he	everything					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme everything=Value
2	check	past	he not said here	it				twice property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

nah, he was really nice and let everyone do what they liked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nice	conj
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 let	obj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		nice property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	everyone		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	everyone not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	like	past	they			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he measured everything and checked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 measured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 measured	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measured	nsubj
4	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 measured	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 checked	cc
7	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 measured	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	he	everything					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme everything=Value
2	check	past	he not said here	it					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he measured the trees twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 measured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 measured	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measured	nsubj
4	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 measured	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	he	the trees				twice property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tree=Value

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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