Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

Peak, what did Smee want to do with the mum?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Smee, Peak · What happens: want, do · To what, where: Peak

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Peak	appos
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 mum	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mum	det
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Peak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Smee	Peak					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peak not said here					with the mum	vn act-114-1 «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

marry the boys' mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 boys	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the boys's mum					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient

Option 2

kidnap the boys' mum to cook for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 boys	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kidnap	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cook	mark
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 kidnap	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	imperative	you not said here	the boys's mum					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme
2	cook	to-infinitive	you not said here					for boys = boy	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

kidnap the boys' mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 boys	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kidnap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	imperative	you not said here	the boys's mum					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme

Option 4

kidnap the boys' mum and keep her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 boys	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kidnap	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 kidnap	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	imperative	you not said here	the boys's mum					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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