Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

According to Peter, what was the reason the island resisted the children's landing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island · What happens: accord, be, resist · To what, where: reason, landing

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the reason	accord Peter	tree rules
3	resist	past	the island	the children's landing		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

the spirits had hidden it from them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spirits	det
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · passive		the spirits				from them = they	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they did not wish the children to land

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 wish	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wish	advmod
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wish	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 land	mark
8	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	past · do-support	they	the children					tree rules
2	land not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they did not wish the children to land on their shore at all

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 wish	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wish	advmod
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wish	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 land	mark
8	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shore	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shore	nmod:poss
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	past · do-support	they	the children					tree rules
2	land not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			children's shore		at all	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on shore=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they did not want the boys landing here

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 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	obj
7	landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 boys	acl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 want	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they	the boys		here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	land	gerund	the boys not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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