Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…
What did the captain liken the voice to when asked to identify himself?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: liken, ask, identify · To what, where: voice, captain
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 liken | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liken | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liken | nsubj |
| 5 | liken | liken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liken | obj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 asked | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 asked | advmod |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 liken | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 identify | mark |
| 12 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 identify | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 liken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liken | past · do-support | the captain | the voice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | the captain not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | identify not said to happen | to-infinitive | the captain not said here | captain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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
a cod and a crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cod | det |
| 2 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crab | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crab | det |
| 5 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cod | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a huge talking cod fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 3 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cod | compound |
| 4 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a dolphin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dolphin | det |
| 2 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a codfish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 codfish | det |
| 2 | codfish | codfish | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/325-pg16-part16/e2/