Test 2 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game…

Yo, what was Peter's wicked new game, the one where he's not doing adventures?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: wicked new game, adventures

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 323 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game, Peter's pretend idleness, and the toss for the lagoon» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 game	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 game	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 game	cop
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 game	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Peter	case
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 game	amod
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 game	amod
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 game	appos
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 doing	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doing	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 doing	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 doing	advmod
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 one	acl:relcl
18	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 doing	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 game	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter's wicked new game					tree rules
2	not do	present · progressive	Peter	adventures					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality

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

doing chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 doing	obj

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

Option 2

pretending to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sleep	mark
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

pretending to do nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 do	mark
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 pretending	xcomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

acting like nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	acting	act	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 happened	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 nothing	case
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 acting	obl
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund						like nothing	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like nothing=Attribute
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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