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

Which term accurately describes Mrs. Darling's emotional state at the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: describe · To what, where: emotional state, window

This is exam question 4 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Darling	compound
6	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 state	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Darling	case
8	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 state	amod
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which term	Mrs. Darling's emotional state		the window		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme

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

She was relaxed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 relaxed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relaxed	cop
3	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					relaxed property	tree rules

Option 2

She was calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	cop
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					calm property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was perturbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perturbed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perturbed	aux:pass
3	perturbed	perturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perturb	past · passive		She					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

She was sad inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 sad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					inside, sad property	tree rules

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