Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Wagwan, what did the mermaids do when the kids tried to join in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wagwan, mermaids, kids · What happens: do, try, join in

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wagwan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mermaids	det
6	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tried	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kids	det
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 join	mark
13	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 join	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Wagwan	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the mermaids	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	the kids	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	join in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the kids not said here	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Splashed and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 laughed	cc
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Splashed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	participle							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Hid under the rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hid	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 rocks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocks	det
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the rocks			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Vanished straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They joined the game and then swam away suddenly when the children reached out their hands

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joined	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swam	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 swam	advmod
7	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 joined	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 swam	advmod
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 swam	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 joined	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 reached	compound:prt
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	They	the game			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
2	swim away	past	They not said here		then	away, suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach out	past	the children	children's hands			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=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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