Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Allow it, how did Peter sound like Hook?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: allow, sound · To what, where: it

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Allow	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sound	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sound	aux
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nsubj
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Allow	parataxis
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 Hook	case
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sound	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Allow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	imperative	you not said here	it					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	sound	past · do-support	Peter					like Hook	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

He mimicked Smee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mimicked	nsubj
2	mimicked	mimic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mimicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mimic	past	He	Smee					tree rules

Option 2

He spoke quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He					quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He copied his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copied	nsubj
2	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	He	his voice					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 4

He tied the pirates' hands with cords and called for help from the sea

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pirates	det
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 pirates	case
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 cords	case
8	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tied	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cords	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 help	case
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	the pirates's hands		the sea		with cords	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with cord=Co-Patient
2	call	participle		cords not said here				for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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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