Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana…

Which phrase best describes the medicine that Mr. Darling disliked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: describe, dislike · To what, where: medicine

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 medicine	det
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 disliked	nsubj:pass
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Darling	nmod:desc
9	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 disliked	nsubj
10	disliked	dislike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 medicine	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the medicine				well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
2	dislike	participle · passive		the medicine					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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

Thick and brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 brown	cc
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thick	conj

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

Option 2

Thick, nasty and tasting of old socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tasting	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nasty	punct
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thick	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tasting	cc
5	tasting	tasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 socks	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 socks	amod
8	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tasting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste			old socks					nom tasting «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Sour, vile and foul smelling in the bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smelling	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vile	punct
3	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sour	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 foul	cc
5	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sour	conj
6	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bottle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund				the bottle			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sticky and sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sweet	cc
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sticky	conj

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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