Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game…

To what does the narrator attribute Peter's refusal to compete in the examination?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: do, compete, refuse · To what, where: examination

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attribute	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	compound
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 refusal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Peter	case
9	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	appos
10	to	to	PART	_	11 compete	mark
11	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refusal	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 examination	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 examination	det
14	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 compete	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	compete	to-infinitive		the examination	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	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

his strong dislike of tests and of all teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dislike	nmod:poss
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dislike	amod
3	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tests	case
5	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dislike	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 teachers	cc
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 teachers	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 teachers	det
9	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tests	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike		his = he	tests and all teachers					nom dislike «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his inability to write or spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 inability	nmod:poss
2	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 inability	acl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 spell	cc
6	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 write	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spell	infinitive							vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his refusal to write or spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 refusal	nmod:poss
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refusal	acl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 spell	cc
6	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 write	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spell	infinitive		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
3	refuse		his = he	nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

his complete inability to write, read, or spell anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 inability	nmod:poss
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inability	amod
3	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 write	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 write	mark
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 write	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spell	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 spell	cc
10	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 write	conj
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 spell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive	his complete inability		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	infinitive	his complete inability not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spell	infinitive	his complete inability not said here	anything	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent anything=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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