Test 15 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about…

Was Wendy's last ever talk with Peter a happy one, or dead sad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: happy one

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	cop
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 last	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Wendy	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 last	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Peter	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sad	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 sad	cc
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sad	amod
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 last	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			last property	tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	a happy one	ever	with Peter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with peter=Co-Agent
3	be					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

a bit angry, asking for a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl:unmarked
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 angry	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 kiss	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kiss	det
8	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for a kiss	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a bit plaintive, asking him not to forget her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plaintive	obl:unmarked
3	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 plaintive	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 forget	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 forget	mark
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she					tree rules

Option 3

a little cheerful, asking him to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cheerful	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheerful	amod
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cheerful	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a bit plaintive, asking him not to forget her and to come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plaintive	obl:unmarked
3	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 plaintive	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 forget	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 forget	mark
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forget	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		him = he	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she		tree rules
3	come back	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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