Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little hou…

Which material did the boys employ to construct the walls of the dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, boys · What happens: do, employ, construct · To what, where: walls

This is exam question 4 of lesson 321 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 12: the boys build a little house round 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 construct	mark
8	construct	construct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 construct	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dwelling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dwelling	det
13	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walls	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which material		tree rules
2	employ	present	the boys		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	construct	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	the walls of the dwelling	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Result

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 right answer

Branches sticky with red sap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sticky	nsubj
2	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sap	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sap	amod
5	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sticky	obl

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

Option 2

Stones from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stones	nmod

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

Option 3

Logs cut from the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	Logs			the trees			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Old sacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sacks	amod
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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