Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medici…

No cap, why couldn't Hook reach the catch on Slightly's door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: not hook, reach · To what, where: catch, door

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 332 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medicine, and Tink drinks it to save him» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Hook	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 Hook	advmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Hook	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Hook	advmod
7	Hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Hook	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 catch	det
10	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	Slightly	Slightly	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 door	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Slightly	case
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Hook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hook	could	no cap						tree rules
2	reach	infinitive	no cap not said here	the catch		Slightly's door			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent catch=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

it was jammed shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jammed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jammed	aux:pass
3	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jammed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jam	past · passive		it				shut property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was too low down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 low	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 low	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 low	advmod
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 low	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					down, low property	tree rules

Option 3

Hook's arm was just too short to reach it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arm	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hook	case
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 short	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hook's arm					short property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	Hook's arm not said here	arm					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

the lock was rusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lock	det
2	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rusty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rusty	cop
4	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lock					rusty property	tree rules

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