Exam question 1 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

Pursuant to the text, at what age did Wendy first perceive her obligation to mature?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: age · What happens: perceive, mature, obligate · To what, where: obligation, text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceive	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 perceive	obl
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceive	aux
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 perceive	advmod
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 text	acl:relcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 obligation	nmod:poss
14	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceive	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 mature	mark
16	mature	mature	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 perceive	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past · do-support		age's obligation	the text	first property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent obligation=Theme clause=Attribute
2	mature	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	obligate		age				nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=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

At about the age of four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 age	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	4 age	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 age	det
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 four	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 age	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

At the age of two years, when she first understood it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 age	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 age	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 understood	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 understood	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 understood	advmod
11	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 understood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	she	age			at the age of two years	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At the age of two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 age	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

At the age of two years, as the narrator explains at length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 age	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 explains	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 explains	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	nsubj
11	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the narrator				at the age of two years	at length	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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