Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

Which character sighed three times in succession, as described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: sigh, describe · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	nsubj
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sighed	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 succession	case
7	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 described	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 described	mark
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sighed	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 passage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	which character				time	in succession	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in succession=Theme
2	describe	participle				the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Tiger Lily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tiger	flat

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

Option 3

Smee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Captain Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hook	compound
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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