Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pira…

What reason does Hook give for forbidding Starkey to discharge his firearm?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, forbid, discharge · To what, where: Starkey, firearm

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj:outer
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 forbidding	mark
7	forbidding	forbid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 give	advcl
8	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forbidding	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 discharge	mark
10	discharge	discharge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forbidding	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 firearm	nmod:poss
12	firearm	firearm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discharge	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	what reason		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	forbid	gerund	what reason not said here	Starkey	tree rules
3	discharge	to-infinitive	what reason not said here	Hook's firearm	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme

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 shot would bring the redskins and the crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shot	det
2	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 redskins	det
6	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crocodile	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crocodile	det
9	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 redskins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	the shot	the redskins and the crocodile					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent redskin=Theme

Option 2

the noise would wake the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wake	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wake	aux
4	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crew	det
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	would	the noise	the crew					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crew=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the report would alert the redskins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alert	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 alert	aux
4	alert	alert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 redskins	det
6	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 alert	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alert speech: other	would	the report	the redskins					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent redskin=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the boys would wake up and run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wake	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wake	aux
4	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 wake	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 run	cc
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	would	the boys						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	infinitive	the boys not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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