Exam question 3 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

With reference to the passage, what was the precise breed of the nurse Nana?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: be · To what, where: precise breed

This is exam question 3 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breed	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 breed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 breed	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 breed	det
10	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breed	amod
11	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Nana	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Nana	det
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Nana	compound
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 breed	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the passage and the precise breed	the precise breed				of the nurse Nana	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

A prim Newfoundland of the Kensington kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Newfoundland	det
2	prim	prim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Newfoundland	amod
3	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	Kensington	Kensington	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kind	compound
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Newfoundland	nmod

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

Option 2

Saint Bernard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bernard	Bernard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saint	flat

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

Option 3

Retriever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Retriever	retriever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Newfoundland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Newfoundland	newfoundland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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