Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

Where was Mrs. D waiting, the one with sad eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs. D waiting · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	compound
4	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	compound
5	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	appos
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mrs. D waiting					where property	tree rules

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

By the kitchen fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fire	compound
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sitting by the piano in the drawing-room below the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 piano	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 piano	det
4	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
7	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 drawing	punct
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
10	below	below	ADP	_	12 stairs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stairs	det
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the drawing room below the stairs		by the piano	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by piano=Location

Option 3

Waiting in the hallway, looking out at the street through the cold glass door

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hallway	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hallway	det
4	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Waiting	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 looking	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	15 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund				the hallway			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hallway=Location
2	look out	gerund				the street		through the cold glass door	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the night-nursery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 nursery	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nursery	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nursery	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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