Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…
Bruv, what were the kids chucking at the gulls for a laugh?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, kids · What happens: be, chuck · To what, where: kids, gulls
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 326 «Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Peter helpless, Wendy flies off on Michael's kite, and the Never bird comes to save him» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kids | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 kids | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kids | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kids | det |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bruv | appos |
| 7 | chucking | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kids | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 gulls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gulls | det |
| 10 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chucking | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 laugh | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 laugh | det |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chucking | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bruv | the kids | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chuck | gerund | the kids not said here | the gulls | for a laugh | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at gull=Destination |
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 · ← Mova's choice
the gold and the silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 silver | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 silver | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
moidores and pieces of eight, bruv, for a laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moidores | moidore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pieces | cc |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 moidores | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 eight | case |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 moidores | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 laugh | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 moidores | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
jewels and old doubloons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 doubloons | cc |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doubloons | amod |
| 4 | doubloons | doubloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 jewels | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
moidores and pieces of eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moidores | moidore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pieces | cc |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 moidores | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 eight | case |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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