Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, Wendy's bedtime story, part 19: Peter asks if h…

why did Peter hate Wendy's story, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: hate · To what, where: story

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hate	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Wendy	case
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talk	amod
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past · do-support	Peter	Wendy's story					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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

Boring, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ngl	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Boring	punct
3	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cause the grown-ups are sad, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ups	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ups	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ngl	punct
9	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the Cause grown ups	sad property	tree rules

Option 3

Too sad, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ngl	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct
4	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause the parents are so sad, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parents	det
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sad	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ngl	punct
8	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	the parents					sad property	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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