Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

Which tribal belief did Tiger Lily's people hold concerning the passage of the dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tribal belief, people · What happens: do, hold, concern · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 belief	det
2	tribal	tribal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 belief	amod
3	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Lily	compound
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 people	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lily	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	nsubj
9	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hold	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passage	det
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dead	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dead	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 passage	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which tribal belief		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	present	Tiger Lily's people		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	concern	gerund	Tiger Lily's people not said here	the passage of the dead	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus passage=Experiencer

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

That no path through water led to the hunting-ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 path	det
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 path	det
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	nmod
6	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 path	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ground	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hunting	punct
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		that path through water not said here				to the hunting ground	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ground=Patient

Option 2

That every river and lake led straight to the happy hunting-ground, so the dead must always swim there at once

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 river	det
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lake	cc
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	conj
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 ground	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	amod
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ground	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hunting	punct
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swim	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 swim	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dead	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 swim	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 swim	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 swim	advmod
20	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 led	conj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 swim	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	that river and lake					to the happy hunting ground	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ground=Patient
2	swim	must	the dead			there		always property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 3

That water was a path to the hunting-ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 path	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 path	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ground	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hunting	punct
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 path	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that water	a path				to the hunting ground	tree rules

Option 4

That the dead must cross a great mountain of fire and ice before entering the hunting-ground of their people

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cross	obl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dead	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 That	amod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	aux
5	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mountain	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ice	cc
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	conj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 entering	mark
14	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cross	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
16	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ground	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hunting	punct
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entering	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 people	nmod:poss
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ground	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	must		That					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
2	enter	gerund		the hunting ground of mountain's people					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination

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