Test 4 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

Tootles totally blamed his mum, the cheeky swot.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tootles · What happens: blame · To what, where: mum

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blamed	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 blamed	advmod
3	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blamed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swot	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swot	det
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swot	amod
9	swot	swot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blamed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	Tootles	his mum and the cheeky swot				totally property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=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

scolded his nan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scolded	scold	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 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past		his nan					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Theme

Option 2

blamed his mum for everything at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blamed	blame	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 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blamed	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 blamed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past		his mum		sea		for everything	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mum=Theme for everything=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

blamed his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blamed	blame	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 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past		his mum					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme

Option 4

blamed Mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Mum	amod
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	participle							vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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