Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana…

According to the passage, how did the stars respond once the door of 27 had closed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stars · What happens: accord, respond, close · To what, where: door

This is exam question 3 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passage	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 respond	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 respond	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 respond	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stars	det
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 respond	nsubj
10	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passage	conj
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	17 closed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closed	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 27	case
15	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 door	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 closed	aux
17	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 respond	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	respond speech: other	past · do-support	the stars		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	close	past · perfect · passive		the door of 27	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

They screamed COME AWAY

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	COME	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 screamed	ccomp
4	AWAY	away	ADV	_	3 COME	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come away	infinitive						away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They called COME BACK

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	COME	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	xcomp
4	BACK	back	ADV	_	3 COME	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come back	infinitive	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They shouted GO HOME

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	GO	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shouted	ccomp
4	HOME	home	ADV	_	3 GO	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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