Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 11: Hook plots a poisoned cake,…

On what object did Captain Hook and Smee sit before the discovery of the chimney?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Captain, Smee · What happens: hook, sit, discover · To what, where: discovery, chimney

This is exam question 1 of lesson 320 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 11: Hook plots a poisoned cake, and Tootles shoots Wendy» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 object	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 object	nsubj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Hook	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Hook	aux
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hook	nsubj
6	Hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sit	cc
8	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sit	nsubj
9	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Hook	conj
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 discovery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 discovery	det
12	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 chimney	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chimney	det
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovery	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Hook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hook	past · do-support	Captain			on object	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on object=Co-Patient
2	sit	present	Smee		the discovery of the chimney		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before discovery=Location
3	discover			the chimney			nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient

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

a great pile of wet and mossy stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pile	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pile	amod
3	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 stones	case
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mossy	cc
7	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wet	conj
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pile	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a large mushroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mushroom	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mushroom	amod
3	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a large wooden chair from the ship's cabin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chair	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chair	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chair	amod
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 cabin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cabin	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 ship	case
9	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chair	nmod

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

Option 4

a fallen tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	participle							vn occur-48.3 «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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