Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game…
With reference to the passage, by what means did Wendy attempt to fix the old life in the boys' minds?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wendy, boys · What happens: mean, attempt, fix, mind · To what, where: old life, minds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 323 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game, Peter's pretend idleness, and the toss for the lagoon» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 passage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 means | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 means | nsubj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attempt | aux |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 attempt | nsubj |
| 12 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fix | mark |
| 14 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 attempt | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 life | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fix | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 minds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boys | det |
| 20 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 minds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 boys | case |
| 22 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fix | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | with reference to the passage | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | attempt | past · do-support | Wendy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | the old life | the boys's minds | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent life=Patient | |||
| 4 | mind | the boys | nom mind «cognition 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
long written tests on every detail of home life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 written | advmod |
| 2 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tests | amod |
| 3 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 detail | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 detail | det |
| 6 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tests | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | compound |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 detail | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | long property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | detail | home life | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
examination papers on home life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 papers | compound |
| 2 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | compound |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 papers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
examination papers on home life and their parents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 papers | compound |
| 2 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | compound |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 papers | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 parents | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 papers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
questions about their home life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | compound |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 questions | nmod |
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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