Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

Where was the ticking actually coming from, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ticking · What happens: be, come · To what, where: fam

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ticking	det
4	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ticking	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 fam	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ticking					where property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	the ticking not said here			fam		actually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fam=Initial_Location

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 rigging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	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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