Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about…

Why'd the boys stop flying, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: stop, fly

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 proper	advcl
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 proper	case
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the boys						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fly	gerund	the boys not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They lost their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wings	nmod:poss
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They	their wings					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They stopped believing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	believe	gerund	They not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They got too tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They got old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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