Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…

Wicked, who nicked the light out of Hook's lamp?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: nick · To what, where: light, lamp

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 lamp	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 lamp	case
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lamp	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hook	case
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past		the light		Hook's lamp			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent light=Theme out lamp=Source

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

Some invisible thing, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 thing	det
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	vocative

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

Option 2

A gust, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gust	det
2	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gust	conj

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

Option 3

A ghost, I reckon, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ghost	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	a ghost	mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mate=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Something he couldn't see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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