Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wend…

What reason does Peter give for the lost boys lacking female companionship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, lost boys · What happens: give, lose, lack · To what, where: female companionship

This is exam question 2 of lesson 315 «Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wendy to fly off to Neverland to tell stories» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj:outer
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 boys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 boys	amod
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl
10	lacking	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 boys	acl
11	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 companionship	amod
12	companionship	companionship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lacking	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	what reason		for the lost boys	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for boy=Asset
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lack	gerund	the lost boys not said here	female companionship		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 · ← Mova's choice

Girls are too busy to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 busy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 busy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Girls					busy property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	Girls not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Girls never fall out of prams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fall	advmod
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 prams	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 prams	case
6	prams	pram	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	present	Girls			prams			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pram=Location

Option 3

Girls are clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Girls					clever property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Girls are too clever to fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clever	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Girls					clever property	tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	Girls not said here						vn occur-48.3 «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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