Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 14: Wendy's exam game…

Which adventure was selected by the narrator, and by what means was the selection made?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: select, mean, be, make · To what, where: adventure, selection

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 adventure	det
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selected	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 selected	aux:pass
4	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 narrator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selected	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 means	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 selected	parataxis
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 selection	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 selection	det
15	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	obj
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 selection	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 selected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	past · passive	the narrator	which adventure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the selection	tree rules
4	make	participle		the selection not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 lagoon, selected by Peter's own decision after thinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lagoon	det
2	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 selected	punct
4	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lagoon	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 decision	case
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 decision	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Peter	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 decision	amod
9	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selected	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 thinking	mark
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 selected	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	participle		the lagoon not said here	by Peter's own decision	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	decide		Peter			nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the lagoon, by a toss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lagoon	det
2	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 toss	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 toss	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toss	det
6	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lagoon	conj

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

Option 3

the lagoon, chosen by the boys in a fair toss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lagoon	det
2	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chosen	punct
4	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lagoon	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 boys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chosen	obl:agent
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 toss	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 toss	det
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 toss	amod
11	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	participle		the lagoon not said here		a fair toss			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the ship, by vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vote	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 vote	case
5	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ship	appos

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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