Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

In what manner did the children rest while travelling on the wind?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: do, rest, travel · To what, where: manner, wind

This is exam question 1 of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» 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 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rest	nsubj
7	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 travelling	mark
9	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rest	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelling	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past		what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	present	the children		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	travel	gerund	the children not said here	the wind	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory

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

by lying flat upon the strong wind going their way east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 going	advcl
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lying	obl
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obj
11	east	east	ADV	_	8 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the strong wind		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location
2	go	gerund		their way				east property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 2

by floating on the breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 floating	mark
2	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 breeze	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breeze	det
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				the breeze			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory

Option 3

by lying flat upon the wind with their arms outstretched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lying	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 arms	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lying	obl
10	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 arms	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the wind		with their arms; flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location
2	outstretch	participle		their arms not said here					tree rules

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

by lying flat upon the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the wind		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location

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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