Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Why'd Hook get Smee to bang the tom-tom, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smee · What happens: hook, get, bang · To what, where: Smee, tom tom

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 Hook	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 Hook	aux
3	Hook	hook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Hook	xcomp
5	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bang	mark
7	bang	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tom	det
9	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tom	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 tom	punct
11	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bang	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Hook	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Hook	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Hook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hook	would			then	tree rules
2	get	infinitive		Smee		tree rules
3	bang	to-infinitive	Smee not said here	the tom tom		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=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 · ← Mova's choice

To warn the pirates of danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pirates	det
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warn	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 danger	case
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pirates	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive		the pirates of danger					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pirate=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To trick the boys up the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trick	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 trick	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick up	to-infinitive		the boys					tree rules

Option 3

To wake the sleeping braves early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wake	mark
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 braves	det
4	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 braves	compound
5	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wake	obj
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	to-infinitive		the sleeping braves				early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brave=Patient

Option 4

To scare them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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