Test 14 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Oi, what did the coyote calls do to the paleface waiting?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coyote calls, paleface · What happens: do, wait

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calls	det
6	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calls	compound
7	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 paleface	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 paleface	det
11	paleface	paleface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 paleface	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the coyote calls	to the paleface	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	gerund	the paleface not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Woke the sleeping pirates up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pirates	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sleeping	det
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pirates	nsubj
4	pirates	pirate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pirates	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	the sleeping not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pirate up	present	the sleeping						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Made the paleface's heart race and his hands shake as the boys whispered in the dark

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 paleface	det
3	paleface	paleface	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 race	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 paleface	case
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 race	compound
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shake	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shake	nsubj
10	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Made	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 whispered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 whispered	nsubj
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shake	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dark	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dark	det
17	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whispered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	past		the paleface's heart race		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset race=Product
2	shake	present	his hands			tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert	past	the boys		the dark	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
4	race		the paleface			nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Made the waiting horribly tense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waiting	det
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
4	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	5 tense	advmod
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the waiting				tense obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset waiting=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Made the pirates stop waiting and rush straight into the dark camp with their knives

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pirates	det
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rush	cc
7	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 camp	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 camp	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 camp	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 camp	amod
12	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rush	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 knives	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knives	nmod:poss
15	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 camp	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pirates	stop property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	the pirates not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	present	the pirates not said here	into the dark camp with pirates's knives result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into camp=Result

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