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

What is the principal reason that Mrs. Darling falls asleep during the evening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs. Darling · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 falls	mark
7	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Darling	compound
8	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	nsubj
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	advcl
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 falls	xcomp
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal reason					tree rules
2	fall	present	Mrs. Darling				evening	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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

She is sewing beside a warm fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sewing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sewing	aux
3	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	present · progressive	She			a warm fire			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside fire=Destination

Option 2

The children are asleep and she is sewing beside a warm fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sewing	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sewing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sewing	aux
8	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 asleep	conj
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the children					asleep property	tree rules
2	sew	present · progressive	she			a warm fire			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside fire=Destination

Option 3

She is sewing beside a warm fire after a long and tiring day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sewing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sewing	aux
3	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewing	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	13 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tiring	cc
12	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	present · progressive	She			a warm fire	day		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside fire=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She is reading beside the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reading	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reading	aux
3	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · progressive	She			the bed			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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