Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…

With what object did Nana return to the nursery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nana · What happens: return

This is exam question 1 of lesson 312 «Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the shadow, and the parents blame themselves for that Friday» 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	_	3 object	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 object	nsubj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
5	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 return	nsubj
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 nursery	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nursery	det
9	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · do-support	Nana					with object; to the nursery result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nursery=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

the shadow of the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shadow	det
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shadow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shadow			the boy					nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a tangled kite string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 string	det
2	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 string	amod
3	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 string	compound
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a sock and the shadow of the boy from the bathroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shadow	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sock	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shadow	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bathroom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bathroom	det
11	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shadow			the boy					nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the shadow of the boy, rolled up tightly in a sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shadow	det
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shadow	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rolled	punct
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 rolled	compound:prt
9	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	7 rolled	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sheet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheet	det
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll up	participle · passive		the shadow of the boy		a sheet		tightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in sheet=Trajectory
2	shadow			the boy					nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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