Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come h…

Tink was on about being a sneaky tell-tale, proper cheeky

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tink · What happens: be · To what, where: sneaky tell tale

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 338 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come home, and Peter flies off alone» 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	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tale	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	10 tale	case
4	about	about	ADP	_	10 tale	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tale	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tale	det
7	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	amod
8	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tale	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cheeky	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cheeky	amod
13	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tink			a sneaky tell tale			tree rules
2	be		Tink not said here						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

yeah she shouted from the other room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 shouted	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shouted	nsubj
3	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	she			the other room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah she said she'd tell on him to the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	she		the boys			on him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she called out from round the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 called	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 corner	case
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle	she			the corner			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from corner=Source

Option 4

yeah she called out from round the corner and then told the whole nursery what Peter had done

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 called	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 corner	case
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 told	advmod
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nursery	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nursery	amod
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 done	obj
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 done	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle	she		the corner		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from corner=Source
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	the whole nursery		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent nursery=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	Peter				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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