Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…
Did Hook actually claw Smee, or did he chicken out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smee · What happens: do, do out, chicken · To what, where: Hook
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 333 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refuse, and Wendy is brought up» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 Smee | advmod |
| 4 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Smee | compound |
| 5 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chicken | nsubj |
| 10 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 did | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hook | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do out | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | chicken | Smee | tree rules |
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
lost his nerve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nerve | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | his nerve | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Eventuality |
Option 2
chickened out and hid below deck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chickened | chicken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hid | advcl |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 chickened | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hid | cc |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | below | below | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deck | amod |
| 6 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chicken out | participle | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hide | past | below deck | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deck=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
chickened out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chickened | chicken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 chickened | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chicken out | participle | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
chickened out after a long speech
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chickened | chicken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 chickened | compound:prt |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 speech | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 speech | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chickened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chicken out | participle | after a long speech | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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