Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

Did the crowds boo him or cheer him, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowds · What happens: boo, cheer · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowds	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowds	det
3	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boo	nsubj
4	boo	boo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boo	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 cheer	cc
7	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boo	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheer	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boo	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boo	present	the crowds	him = he					tree rules
2	cheer	infinitive	the crowds not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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

They laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They waved at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	They					at him = he	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They cheered him loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	obj
4	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 cheered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	They	him = he				loud property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4

They cheered him loudly and threw flowers at his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	obj
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 cheered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheered	conj
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	They	him = he				loudly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	throw	past	They not said here	flowers		his feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at foot=Destination

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