Test 13 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…
Yo, what stuck out of the rock marking the buried stuff, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rock · What happens: stick out, mark, bury · To what, where: rock, buried stuff
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 4 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 9 | marking | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rock | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stuff | det |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stuff | amod |
| 12 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 stuck | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | past | the rock | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mark | gerund | the rock not said here | the buried stuff | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent stuff=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
a stick hammered in by sailors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stick | det |
| 2 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stick | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hammered | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 sailors | case |
| 6 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hammered | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer in | participle | a stick not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
a metal rod shoved in by pirates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rod | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rod | compound |
| 3 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rod | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 shoved | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pirates | case |
| 7 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shoved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in | participle | a metal rod not said here | by pirates | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by pirate=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a stave driven in by buccaneers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stave | det |
| 2 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stave | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 driven | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 buccaneers | case |
| 6 | buccaneers | buccaneer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 driven | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive in | participle | a stave not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
a long stave driven in by buccaneers, like proper pirates, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stave | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stave | amod |
| 3 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stave | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 driven | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 buccaneers | case |
| 7 | buccaneers | buccaneer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 driven | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pirates | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 pirates | case |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pirates | amod |
| 11 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buccaneers | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stave | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive in | participle | a long stave and innit not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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