Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…

What did Peter crow, like a rooster, to scare the pirates?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: crow, scare · To what, where: pirates

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 crow	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crow	aux
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 crow	nsubj
4	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rooster	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 rooster	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rooster	det
8	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scare	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 scare	mark
11	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crow	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pirates	det
13	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scare	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past · do-support	Peter					like a rooster	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	scare	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	the pirates					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pirate=Experiencer

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

that the lads were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 lost	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lads	det
3	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the lads					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that the boys were dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boys					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

that the boys were dead and gone forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gone	cc
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	conj
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boys					dead, forever property	tree rules
2	be		the boys not said here						tree rules

Option 4

that all the boys had been killed by Hook's crew at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 killed	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 boys	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 killed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 crew	case
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crew	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hook	case
11	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crew	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive	Hook's crew at dawn	all boys					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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