Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Gutted, why was Wendy crying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wendy · What happens: gut, cry

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crying	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 crying	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crying	aux
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crying	nsubj
6	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	Wendy not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Wendy						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

The boys were gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She missed her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	She	her mother					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was her first tragedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tragedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tragedy	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tragedy	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tragedy	amod
5	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	her first tragedy					tree rules

Option 4

Hook's trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trick	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hook	case
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick		Hook						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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