Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Did the braves yell when the pirates came, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: braves, pirates · What happens: yell, come

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 330 «Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surprise the Piccaninnies in the dark, and Hook tricks the boys with the tom-tom» 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=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 braves	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 braves	det
3	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yell	nsubj
4	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pirates	det
7	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 came	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	the braves						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	the pirates						vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the war-cry tore the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tore	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cry	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 war	punct
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tore	nsubj
7	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	the war cry	the air					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, the chief gave a shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shout	det
7	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the chief	a shout					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the drums just beat softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drums	det
4	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	the drums					softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they held their breath until the very last moment when the pirates came

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breath	nmod:poss
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
7	until	until	ADP	_	11 moment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 last	advmod
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moment	amod
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pirates	det
14	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	they	their breath			moment		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	come	past	the pirates						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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