Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest,…
no cap, why did the bird ditch her nest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: ditch · To what, where: nest
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 327 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest, the boys' late bedtime, and Peter's return with nuts» 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ditch | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 ditch | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ditch | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ditch | nsubj |
| 8 | ditch | ditch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ditch | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ditch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ditch | past · do-support | no cap | bird's nest | 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 hat was too big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hat | det |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hat | big property | tree rules |
Option 2
it was too wet
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 | 4 wet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wet | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 wet | advmod |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | wet property | tree rules |
Option 3
the eggs had hatched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eggs | det |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hatched | aux |
| 4 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | past · perfect · passive | the eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the hat was a massive hit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hat | det |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hit | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hit | det |
| 5 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hit | amod |
| 6 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the hat | a massive hit | 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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