Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana…

With reference to the text, by whom was Nana tied up in the yard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tie up · To what, where: Nana

This is exam question 1 of lesson 313 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana tied up, the stars call for the grown-ups to leave» 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	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tied	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 whom	case
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 tied	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tied	aux:pass
10	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tied	nsubj:pass
11	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 tied	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 yard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yard	det
15	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		Nana				with reference to the text; in the yard	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with reference=Co-Patient

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

Peter Pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peter	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mr. Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	nmod:desc
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Mrs. Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	compound
2	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wendy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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