Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly…

State the contrary condition which the narrator attributes to a fairy, and explain its consequence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: attribute, explain · To what, where: contrary condition, consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 318 «Peter Pan, The Island Come True, part 9: the children fly on in the dark while Tink lures Wendy away and the pirates fire Long Tom» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
3	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 attributes	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attributes	nsubj
8	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fairy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attributes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explain	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 explain	cc
14	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	parataxis
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 consequence	nmod:poss
16	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 explain	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present	the narrator	the contrary condition				to a fairy	tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive		narrator's consequence					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic

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

A fairy can feel many things at once and is never fully good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 feel	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 good	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 good	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 good	advmod
12	fully	fully	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	can	a fairy	many things					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at once=Location
2	not is	present	a fairy not said here					fully, good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A fairy may be wholly good or wholly bad, having room for one feeling only

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bad	cc
8	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	9 bad	advmod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 good	parataxis
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 feeling	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feeling	nummod
15	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obl
16	only	only	ADV	_	15 feeling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	a fairy		good, wholly property	tree rules
2	be		a fairy not said here		wholly property	tree rules
3	have	gerund		room	for one feeling	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient

Option 3

A fairy may be partly good and partly bad, so she feels two things at once

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
5	partly	partly	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bad	cc
8	partly	partly	ADV	_	9 bad	advmod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feels	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 feels	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feels	nsubj
13	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 things	nummod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feels	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	a fairy		good, partly property	tree rules
2	be		a fairy not said here		partly property	tree rules
3	feel	present	fairy	two things		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at once=Location

Option 4

A fairy may be wholly good or wholly bad, having room for one feeling only, so she can never be sorry for anything she does

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bad	cc
8	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	9 bad	advmod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 good	parataxis
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 feeling	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feeling	nummod
15	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obl
16	only	only	ADV	_	15 feeling	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sorry	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 sorry	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sorry	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sorry	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 sorry	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sorry	cop
23	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 anything	case
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 sorry	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 does	nsubj
27	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	a fairy		good, wholly property	tree rules
2	be		a fairy not said here		wholly property	tree rules
3	have	gerund		room	for one feeling	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
4	not is	can	fairy		for anything; sorry property	tree rules
5	do	present	fairy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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