Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Real talk, what did Peter's smile mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smile, Peter · What happens: mean, smile · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 324 «Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture Tiger Lily and leave her on the rock, but Peter tricks them» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mean	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smile	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Peter	case
8	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	nsubj
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	Peter's smile	Real talk					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	smile		Peter						nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

That everyone should cheer and sing a song before going to sleep on the rock

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 everyone	det
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 cheer	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheer	aux
4	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sing	cc
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheer	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sing	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sing	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cheer	should	everyone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	everyone not said here	a song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	go	gerund	everyone not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		the rock	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone had to obey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 obey	mark
4	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Everyone						tree rules
2	obey	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That the pirates were close and everyone had to hide behind the rocks until the signal came

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 close	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pirates	det
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 close	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 close	cop
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 close	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hide	mark
10	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 rocks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rocks	det
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hide	obl
14	until	until	ADP	_	16 signal	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 signal	det
16	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hide	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 close	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That			close property	tree rules
2	have	past	everyone				tree rules
3	hide	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	the rocks	until the signal		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location

Option 4

Peter was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter					angry property	tree rules

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