Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Was Hook buzzing on his face after the scrap, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hook · What happens: be, buzz · To what, where: Hook, face

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 Hook	cop
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Hook	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzing	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 scrap	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scrap	det
9	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Hook					tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	Hook not said here			Hook's face	after the scrap		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location

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, his face hid it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	his face	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, he was grinning and roaring like a madman as he wiped his blade clean

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grinning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grinning	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grinning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grinning	aux
5	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roaring	cc
7	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grinning	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 madman	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 madman	det
10	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaring	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 wiped	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wiped	nsubj
13	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grinning	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blade	nmod:poss
15	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wiped	obj
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wiped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grin	past · progressive	he			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	gerund	he not said here		like a madman	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wipe	past	he	his blade	clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent blade=Source

Option 3

Nah, his face was calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calm	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his face					calm property	tree rules

Option 4

Nope, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	1 Nope	advmod

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

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