Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…
In the text, why did the children fail to fly when they first tried without assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: fail, not fly, try · To what, where: text
This is exam question 1 of lesson 316 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly and set off for Neverland» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 text | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 text | det |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fail | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 text | punct |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fail | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fail | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fail | nsubj |
| 9 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fly | mark |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fail | xcomp |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 tried | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 tried | advmod |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | advcl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 assistance | case |
| 17 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tried | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 fail | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past · do-support | the children | the text | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not fly | to-infinitive | the children not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past | children = child | without assistance; first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
they had not learned how to try
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 | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 learned | advmod |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 try | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | past · perfect | they | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | they not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
because no fairy dust had been blown upon them and their thoughts were not happy enough
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 blown | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 dust | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dust | amod |
| 4 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blown | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 blown | aux:pass |
| 7 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 happy | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blown | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thoughts | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 them | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · perfect · passive | no fairy dust | upon them = they | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | enough, happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think | their = they | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
they were too heavy for the air
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 | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 heavy | advmod |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | for the air; heavy property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
because no fairy dust had been blown upon them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 blown | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 dust | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dust | amod |
| 4 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blown | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 blown | aux:pass |
| 7 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · perfect · passive | no fairy dust | upon them = they | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
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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