Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

In what manner did the boys vacate Marooners' Rock upon the alarm being raised?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: do, vacate, raise · To what, where: Rock, manner

This is exam question 2 of lesson 324 «Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture Tiger Lily and leave her on the rock, but Peter tricks them» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vacate	nsubj
7	vacate	vacate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	Marooners	marooner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Rock	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 Marooners	case
10	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 alarm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 alarm	det
13	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 raised	aux:pass
15	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		Marooners's Rock	what manner	upon the alarm	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality
2	vacate	present	the boys				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	raise	gerund · passive					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»

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 · ✓ the right answer

They plunged beneath the surface of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plunged	nsubj
2	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 surface	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 surface	det
5	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plunged	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surface	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plunge	past	They					beneath the surface of the water	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

They waited for the pirates to leave and then crept quietly out of the cave together

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 pirates	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pirates	det
5	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crept	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 crept	advmod
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 crept	advmod
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 cave	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crept	obl
16	together	together	ADV	_	10 crept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	They			for the pirates	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	to-infinitive	They not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	past	They not said here	the cave	then	quietly, together property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cave=Trajectory

Option 3

They ran along the wooden plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADP	_	6 plank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plank	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plank	amod
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They			the wooden plank			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along plank=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They climbed up the tall palm trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climbed	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	They	the tall palm trees					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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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