Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

What made Hook drop like a sack of spuds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hook · What happens: make, drop

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 334 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter ticks his way aboard the ship» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drop	nsubj
4	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 spuds	case
9	spuds	spud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sack	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past							tree rules
2	drop	infinitive	Hook					like a sack of spuds	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

the tick-tick of the clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tick	det
2	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tick	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tick	punct
4	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 clock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tick	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tick			the clock					nom tick «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the sea wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wave	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wave	compound
3	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the cannon shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shot	det
2	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	compound
3	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the tick-tick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tick	det
2	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tick	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tick	punct
4	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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