Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wend…

What, according to the text, does Peter intend to teach the children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: accord, intend, teach · To what, where: text, children

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 intend	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 What	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 text	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 according	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 intend	aux
9	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 intend	nsubj
10	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 teach	mark
12	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intend	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 teach	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 intend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal
2	intend	present · do-support	Peter			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	the children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

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

to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 swim	mark
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fly	mark
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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