Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…
What did Peter reckon the redskins would do if they won?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter, redskins · What happens: reckon, do, win
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 redskins | det |
| 6 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckon | ccomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 won | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | would | the redskins | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win a condition, not said to happen | past | redskins = redskin | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Shoot every pirate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 pirate | det |
| 3 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shoot | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Beat the tom-tom loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tom | det |
| 3 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tom | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tom | punct |
| 5 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beat | obj |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beat | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | imperative | you not said here | the tom tom | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Take the boys home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the boys | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination |
Option 4
Hang every single pirate from the highest tree on the island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pirate | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pirate | amod |
| 4 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hang | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hang | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hang | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | imperative | you not said here | every single pirate | the highest tree | on the island | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pirate=Theme on island=Destination |
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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