Test 13 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about…

Did Peter remember Wendy's year, or was it a blur?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter, it · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: blur

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 339 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about Neverland» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 year	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Wendy	case
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blur	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 blur	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blur	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blur	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 blur	det
12	blur	blur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · do-support	Peter				year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a blur					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

he recalled a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recalled	nsubj
2	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 days	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recalled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	past	he				day		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he didn't remember the year at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remember	past · do-support	he			all	year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it was a blur

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	4 blur	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blur	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blur	det
4	blur	blur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a blur					tree rules

Option 4

he remembered only a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	he						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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