Test 1 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

Mate, Smee went "what's a mother," like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smee · What happens: go, be · To what, where: mother

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mother	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	9 mother	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Smee					for real; Mate vocative	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for real=Beneficiary
2	is a in a quote	present		a mother					tree rules

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 pretended he had never heard of one

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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pretended	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He						tree rules
2	not hear	past · perfect	he					of one	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of one=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He asked about it again and again

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 asked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He				again	about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He really didn't know

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	5 know	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He just forgot it

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	3 forgot	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 forgot	advmod
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	obj

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/325-pg16-part16/t1/