Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pira…

What is the name of the implement with which Smee effects his killings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: name

This is exam question 3 of lesson 319 «Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pirates hunt for the lost boys' hidden home» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	4 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 implement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 implement	det
7	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 effects	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 effects	nsubj
10	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 effects	compound
11	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 implement	nmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 killings	nmod:poss
13	killings	killing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 effects	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the name				of the implement with Smee effects and his killings	tree rules
2	kill		his = he						nom killing «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

Mr Long Thin Gleaming Blade of Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Long	compound
2	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	Thin	thin	ADP	_	5 Blade	case
4	Gleaming	Gleaming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Blade	compound
5	Blade	Blade	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Long	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Death	case
7	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Blade	nmod

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

Option 2

a pistol he keeps in his belt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pistol	det
2	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 belt	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 belt	nmod:poss
7	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a pistol			pistol's belt			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in belt=Location

Option 3

Black Mary Ann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mary	compound
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mary	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Johnny Corkscrew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Corkscrew	Corkscrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Johnny	flat

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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