Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a hous…

Which object did the boys employ as the knocker of the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, boys · What happens: do, employ

This is exam question 1 of lesson 322 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a house and she agrees to be their mother» 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 object	det
2	object	object	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	as	as	ADP	_	9 knocker	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knocker	det
9	knocker	knocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocker	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object						tree rules
2	employ	present	the boys					as the knocker of the house	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as knocker=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

the sole of Tootles's shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sole	det
2	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 shoe	case
4	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shoe	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tootles	case
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sole	nmod

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

Option 2

the heel of Nibs's boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heel	det
2	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 boot	case
4	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boot	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Nibs	case
6	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heel	nmod

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

Option 3

a shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Tootles's hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hat	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tootles	case
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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