Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

Wot did the dad say about the window, fam?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Wot						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the dad					about the window and fam	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

It must always be left open so the children can fly back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 left	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 fly	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	11 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must · passive		It				always, open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fly back	can	the children						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It must always be left open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 left	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must · passive		It				always, open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Nobody should ever open it again once the children have gone to sleep.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 open	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 open	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 open	advmod
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 open	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 open	advmod
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gone	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 open	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sleep	mark
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gone	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	open	should	Nobody	it	ever; again	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	go	present · perfect	the children			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	the children not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It should stay closed tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stay	xcomp
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	It					tight property	tree rules
2	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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