Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a hous…

What reason does the text give for Peter's refusal to eat without cause?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, text, Peter · What happens: do, give, eat, refuse

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 refusal	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 refusal	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Peter	case
10	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 refusal	acl
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 cause	case
14	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	what reason		tree rules
2	give	present	the text	for Peter's refusal	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for refusal=Asset
3	eat	to-infinitive	the text not said here	without cause	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	refuse		Peter		nom refusal «communication 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 · ✓ the right answer

he would not stodge merely to feel stodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stodge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stodge	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stodge	advmod
4	stodge	stodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 stodge	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feel	mark
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stodge	xcomp
8	stodgy	stodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stodge	would	he					merely property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	he not said here					stodgy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

he did not like food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	he	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

he wanted to stay thin and quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quick	cc
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					thin property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he would not eat just to be full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 full	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					full property	tree rules

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