Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Dead, who said "Ay, ay" and cut the cords?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: say, cut · To what, where: cords · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ay	punct
6	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	8 ay	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ay	punct
8	ay	ay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cut	cc
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cords	det
13	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cut	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cut	past		the cords					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cord=Product

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

Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Smee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Starkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Ned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ned	Ned	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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