Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

Bruv, what was that paper-looking thing on the lagoon, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv, you · What happens: look, be, innit · To what, where: looking thing, lagoon

This is test 9 · ★ 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	14 innit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thing	mark
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 paper	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 lagoon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lagoon	det
12	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Bruv	looking thing	the lagoon		tree rules
3	innit	imperative	you not said here			Bruv vocative	tree rules

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 right answer

the Never bird on her nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bird	advmod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a bird on a little raft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 raft	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 raft	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 raft	amod
6	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a bundle of old paper floating on the water near the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 paper	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paper	amod
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod
6	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bundle	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floating	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund	a bundle of old paper not said here			the water		near the rock	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on water=Source near rock=Trajectory

Option 4

the Never bird sitting on her nest in the middle of the lagoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bird	advmod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bird	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nest	nmod:poss
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lagoon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lagoon	det
13	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the bird not said here			bird's nest		in the middle of the lagoon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location

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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