Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…

According to the narrator, what was the nature of Peter's knowledge of letters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: nature

This is exam question 2 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 narrator	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nature	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 nature	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nature	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nature	det
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrator	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 knowledge	case
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knowledge	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Peter	case
13	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nature	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 letters	case
15	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knowledge	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the narrator	the nature				of Peter's knowledge of letters	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

that he could read a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 read	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	he	a little					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic

Option 2

that Peter knew all the letters but did not like to read them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 letters	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 letters	det
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 like	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 like	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 like	advmod
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 like	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	Peter	all letters	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus
2	not like	past · do-support	Peter not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	letters = letter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that Peter did not know A from Z

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 know	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Z	case
8	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Peter	A		Z			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer a=Stimulus

Option 4

that Peter did not know A from Z and could not write his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 know	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Z	case
8	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 write	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 write	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 write	advmod
12	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 name	nmod:poss
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Peter	A	Z	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer a=Stimulus
2	not write	could	Peter not said here	Peter's name		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	name		Peter			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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