Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…
What did Mr. Darling state was the cause of the family's misfortune?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Darling state · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Mr., cause
This is exam question 4 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 | 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | Darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 state | amod |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cause | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 misfortune | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 family | case |
| 13 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mr. | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr.=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Darling state | the cause | of the family's misfortune | tree rules |
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 bad weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his tie and the late dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tie | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dinner | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dinner | det |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dinner | amod |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tie | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the dog who had been left in the nursery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nursery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nursery | det |
| 9 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the dog | the nursery | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in nursery=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his own act of pouring medicine into Nana's bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 act | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 act | amod |
| 3 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 pouring | mark |
| 5 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 act | acl |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouring | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bowl | case |
| 8 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Nana | case |
| 10 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | gerund | his own act not said here | medicine | Nana's bowl | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme into bowl=Destination | |||
| 2 | act | his = he | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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