Exam question 4 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

Upon whom did Mrs. Darling chance in the course of tidying her children's minds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: course, children · What happens: do, tidy, mind · To what, where: Mrs. Darling chance, course, minds

This is exam question 4 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chance	compound
5	Darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chance	amod
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 course	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 course	det
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 tidying	mark
11	tidying	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 course	acl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 minds	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 children	case
15	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tidying	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		Mrs. Darling chance	the course	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality
2	tidy	gerund	the course not said here	her children's minds		tree rules
3	mind		her children			nom mind «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice

Pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Tinker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	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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