Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy: Peter returns, finds Wendy gro…

Lol, what does Jane say Peter wants her for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jane, Peter · What happens: say, want · To what, where: Jane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 340 «Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy: Peter returns, finds Wendy grown up, and flies off with Jane instead» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	8 wants	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	Jane						tree rules
2	want	present	Peter	Jane					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=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 · ✓ the right answer

Doing his spring cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cleaning	nmod:poss
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaning	compound
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		his spring cleaning					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality
2	clean		his = he						nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Doing his hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		his hair					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality

Option 3

Doing his homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 homework	nmod:poss
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		his homework					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cleaning his sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sword	nmod:poss
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cleaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	gerund		his sword					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient

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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