Test 4 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest,…

innit wild that the boys stayed up late?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boys · What happens: innit, stay up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 innit	xcomp
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 stayed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 innit	advcl
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stayed	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here					wild property	tree rules
2	stay up	past	the boys					late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

they went to the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			the beach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they were hours late for bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hours	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hours	cop
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 hours	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	hours				late property	tree rules

Option 3

they were late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 were	nsubj
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 were	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	they					late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they climbed the great tree and got stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	they	the great tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	get	past	they not said here					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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