Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hear…

What did Mrs. Darling dream concerning the Neverland?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mrs. Darling dream · What happens: do, concern · To what, where: Mrs. Darling dream, Neverland

This is exam question 4 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dream	compound
4	Darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dream	amod
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 dream	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Neverland	det
8	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Mrs. Darling dream					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	Mrs. Darling dream not said here	the Neverland					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neverland=Experiencer

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

It had come too near and then slowly drifted away again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 near	advmod
5	near	near	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drifted	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drifted	advmod
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 drifted	advmod
9	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 drifted	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 drifted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	It					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drift away	past					then; again	away, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It was far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 away	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 away	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					away, far property	tree rules

Option 3

It had come too near the nursery window at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
7	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	compound
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	It			the nursery window	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near window=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It had come too near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 near	advmod
5	near	near	ADV	_	3 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	It					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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