Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…
Smee's proper gaff, right? He's always sewing, bless him.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smee · What happens: sew, bless · To what, where: Smee
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Smee's proper gaff, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gaff | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Smee | case |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gaff | amod |
| 4 | gaff | gaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaff | punct |
| 6 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 gaff | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaff | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: He's always sewing, bless him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sewing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sewing | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sewing | advmod |
| 4 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bless | punct |
| 6 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sewing | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bless | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sewing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | present · progressive | Smee | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bless | infinitive | Smee not said here | Smee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
The options
Option 1
forever mending
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 mending | advmod |
| 2 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend | gerund | forever property | tree rules |
Option 2
always sewing and mending the crew's shirts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 sewing | advmod |
| 2 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mending | cc |
| 4 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sewing | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shirts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 crew | case |
| 8 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | gerund | always property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mend | gerund | the crew's shirts | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
always sewing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 sewing | advmod |
| 2 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | gerund | always property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
he never stops sewing for the whole crew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 stops | advmod |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stops | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 crew | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crew | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crew | amod |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sewing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | present | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | he not said here | for the whole crew | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for crew=Beneficiary |
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