Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to th…

Starkey got captured by the redskins, mint or not?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: redskins · What happens: capture · To what, where: Starkey

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 336 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to the crocodile, and the children sail for home» 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	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 captured	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 captured	aux:pass
3	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 redskins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 redskins	det
6	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 captured	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mint	punct
8	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 redskins	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 not	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 redskins	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 captured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	past · passive	the redskins and mint	Starkey					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

Yeah, he cleaned their tents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cleaned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cleaned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cleaned	nsubj
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tents	nmod:poss
6	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cleaned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	he	their tents					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he got captured but he escaped and nursed no one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 captured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 captured	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 captured	aux:pass
5	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 escaped	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 escaped	nsubj
8	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 captured	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nursed	cc
10	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 captured	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	capture	past · passive		he	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	escape	past	he		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	nurse	past		no one	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he nursed their babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nursed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nursed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nursed	nsubj
4	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 babies	nmod:poss
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nurse	past	he	their babies					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yeah, he nursed their babies all day long for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nursed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nursed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nursed	nsubj
4	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 babies	nmod:poss
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nursed	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nursed	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 nursed	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nursed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nurse	past	he	their babies			day; year	long property	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary

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