Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

Yo, what was that sound, the mermaids doing the moon thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaids · What happens: be, do · To what, where: sound, moon thing

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	6 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sound	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mermaids	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mermaids	det
9	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	appos
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mermaids	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	compound
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that sound					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the mermaids not said here	the moon thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

wailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wail	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

calling to the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 moon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			the moon				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to moon=Recipient

Option 4

singing to the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			the sky				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sky=Recipient

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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