Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…
Mate, what did Peter's drum inside him say about dying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, say, die · To what, where: drum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mate | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Peter | case |
| 7 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obl |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 dying | mark |
| 12 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | Peter's drum | inside Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
it'd be a big old journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 journey | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 journey | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | it | a big old journey | tree rules |
Option 2
it'd be a proper big adventure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 adventure | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 adventure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 adventure | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adventure | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adventure | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adventure | amod |
| 7 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | it | a proper big adventure | tree rules |
Option 3
it'd be dead boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boring | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 boring | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 boring | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boring | amod |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | it | boring property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
it'd be an awfully big adventure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 adventure | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 adventure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 adventure | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adventure | det |
| 5 | awfully | awfully | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adventure | amod |
| 7 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | it | a big adventure | 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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