Test 13 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…

Did Hook try that fancy thrust Barbecue taught him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hook, Barbecue · What happens: try, teach · To what, where: fancy thrust, Hook

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 335 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die one by one and Peter faces Hook» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
2	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 try	nsubj
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thrust	det
5	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thrust	compound
6	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 try	obj
7	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taught	nsubj
8	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thrust	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taught	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	Hook	that fancy thrust					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrust=Eventuality
2	teach speech: other	past	Barbecue	that fancy thrust not said here	Hook				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 right answer

Yeah, but Peter blocked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 blocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blocked	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 blocked	cc
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blocked	nsubj
5	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	Peter	it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme

Option 2

Nah, Peter dodged it fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dodged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dodged	nsubj
4	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dodged	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dodged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	Peter	it				fast property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 3

Yeah, and it hit Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hit	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	it	Peter					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peter=Co-Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it worked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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