Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

Which boy was first to draw blood in the struggle, according to the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: struggle

This is exam question 4 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	cop
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 draw	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 struggle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 struggle	det
10	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passage	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 passage	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struggle	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 draw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which boy			the struggle and the passage		draw, first property	tree rules
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

Nibs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Tootles and Nibs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Nibs	cc
3	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tootles	conj

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

Option 3

Michael and John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 John	cc
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Michael	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	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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