Test 2 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

Bruv, why was Wendy well shocked by Smee?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, shock · To what, where: Bruv Wendy

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wendy	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Bruv	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Wendy	cop
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 shocked	advmod
7	shocked	shock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Wendy	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Smee	case
9	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shocked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Wendy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Bruv Wendy					tree rules
2	shock	participle		Bruv Wendy not said here				by Smee; well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 was just grumpy

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	4 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 grumpy	advmod
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He tried to hug her too much

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hug	mark
4	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hug	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hug	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hug not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't know what a mum was

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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 know	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mum	det
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop

#	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
2	is a	past	a mum						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He said a mum was a pirate

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pirate	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pirate	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pirate	det
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	a mum	a pirate					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.

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