Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…

What motivation does the narrator ascribe to Peter when he rescues Michael from the sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: motivation, narrator · What happens: ascribe, rescue · To what, where: Peter, Michael, sea

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 motivation	det
2	motivation	motivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribe	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ascribe	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribe	nsubj
6	ascribe	ascribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Peter	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ascribe	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 rescues	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rescues	nsubj
11	rescues	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ascribe	advcl
12	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rescues	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rescues	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ascribe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascribe	present · do-support	what motivation		Peter				tree rules
2	rescue	present	narrator	Michael		the sea			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent michael=Theme from sea=Source

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

wanting to show off to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 show	mark
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wanting	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 show	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive			them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

Option 2

to be a hero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 hero	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hero	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a hero					tree rules

Option 3

pride in his quick thinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 thinking	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thinking	nmod:poss
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	amod
5	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pride	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think		his = he						nom thinking «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

an interest in his own cleverness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 interest	det
2	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cleverness	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cleverness	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cleverness	amod
6	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interest	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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