Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Was it a proper fight, like, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: proper fight

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fight	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fight	amod
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 fight	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fight	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper fight					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, more a massacre than a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 massacre	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 massacre	amod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 massacre	det
5	massacre	massacre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 fight	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 massacre	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, it was more a hunt in the dark, where the braves were cut down in their sleep

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hunt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunt	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 hunt	amod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hunt	det
7	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 cut	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 braves	det
14	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	aux:pass
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hunt	acl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sleep	nmod:poss
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a more hunt	the dark	tree rules
2	cut down	past · passive		the braves	braves's sleep	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	sleep		braves = brave			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nah, it was a rout by Hook's men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 rout	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rout	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rout	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rout	det
6	rout	rout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 men	case
8	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Hook	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rout	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a rout				by Hook's men	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, it was a real fair fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 fight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fight	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fight	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fight	amod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fight	amod
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a real fair fight					tree rules

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