Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hear…

Which of the following is the correct description of the leaves discovered upon the nursery floor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, discover

This is exam question 1 of lesson 311 «Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hears about Peter, then a boy drops into the nursery.» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 discovered	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 description	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 description	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 description	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 description	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 description	det
7	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 description	amod
8	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 description	nmod
12	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 floor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
15	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floor	compound
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 discovered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	of the correct description; of the leaves	tree rules
3	discover	past	upon the nursery floor	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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

They were skeleton leaves unknown in England

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	5 unknown	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unknown	cop
3	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	compound
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unknown	nsubj
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unknown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			England		unknown property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were skeleton leaves that looked like they came from a far island in the sea, not England at all

The tree, 20 words

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	4 leaves	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	cop
3	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	compound
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	acl:relcl
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 island	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 island	det
12	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 island	amod
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 island	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 England	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 England	advmod
19	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	appos
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 England	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	They	skeleton leaves		tree rules
2	look	past	skeleton leaves			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	come	past	leaves = leaf		a far island in the sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location

Option 3

They were skeleton leaves unknown in England, dropped by some strange visitor

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	5 unknown	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unknown	cop
3	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	compound
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unknown	nsubj
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unknown	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 unknown	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 visitor	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 visitor	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 visitor	amod
13	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			England		unknown property	tree rules
2	drop	participle	They not said here					by some strange visitor	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by visitor=Trajectory

Option 4

They were strange leaves from a foreign tree

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	4 leaves	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	cop
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	strange leaves		a foreign tree			tree rules

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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