Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Wendy's bedtime story, part 19: Peter asks if h…

did Nibs want the gentleman to be a white rat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nibs, gentleman · What happens: want, be · To what, where: gentleman, white rat

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 328 «Peter Pan, Wendy's bedtime story, part 19: Peter asks if he is only pretending to be their father, then groans at the story he hates» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
2	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gentleman	det
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	10 rat	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rat	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rat	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rat	amod
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Nibs	the gentleman					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gentleman=Theme
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here	a white rat					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

Nah, he didn't, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fr	punct
7	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he	fr					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he said it was cool, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					cool property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said he wished it, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wished	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	past	he	it				fr obl	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

Nope, he wished it was a bird, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 wished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wished	nsubj
4	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wished	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	he						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past	it	a bird and fr					tree rules

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