Test 4 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come h…

and mum just sat there in the chair not believing them, gutted

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: sit, not believe, gut · To what, where: chair, them

This is test 4 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chair	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chair	det
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 believing	advmod
10	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 believing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gutted	punct
13	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	mum		the chair; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	not believe	gerund	mum not said here	them = they		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	gut	participle	mum not said here			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she thought they were just a dream still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 thought	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dream	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dream	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 dream	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dream	det
8	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 dream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	a dream			still		tree rules

Option 2

yeah she was dead confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 confused	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 confused	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 confused	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 confused	amod
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					confused property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah she sat there and cried a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sat	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	she not said here	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

Option 4

yeah she reckoned it was a dream still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 reckoned	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dream	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dream	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dream	det
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckoned	ccomp
8	still	still	ADV	_	3 reckoned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	she				still		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a dream					tree rules

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