Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, Wendy's bedtime story, part 19: Peter asks if h…
who tried to tell a story and it was mad boring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: try, tell, be · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boring | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 boring | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boring | cop |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boring | amod |
| 11 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | story | boring property | 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
Slightly, cringe, and everyone fell asleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 cringe | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slightly | punct |
| 3 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | everyone | cringe | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Slightly, so cringe, the whole story was boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slightly | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 boring | advmod |
| 4 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boring | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cringe | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 boring | cop |
| 10 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cringe and the whole story | boring property | tree rules |
Option 3
Michael, so cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cringe | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 cringe | advmod |
| 4 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michael | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Slightly, cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 cringe | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slightly | punct |
| 3 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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