Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

What did Liza say about the crowd, bare cheeky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liza · What happens: say, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 337 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks in the kennel; Peter bars the window» 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 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bare	punct
9	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bare	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Liza					about the crowd	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	bear	infinitive	Liza not said here					cheeky property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

"Too many."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 many	punct
2	Too	too	ADV	_	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 many	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 many	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Lots of little boys."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
2	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boys	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lots	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct

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

Option 3

"Lots of little girls."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
2	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 girls	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lots	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct

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

Option 4

"Lots of grown men."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
2	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lots	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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