Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

Upon what grounds did Peter experience the first unfairness as a debilitating shock?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: experience, debilitate · To what, where: first unfairness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 326 «Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Peter helpless, Wendy flies off on Michael's kite, and the Never bird comes to save him» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 experience	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 experience	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 experience	nsubj
6	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 unfairness	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 unfairness	amod
9	unfairness	unfairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experience	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 shock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shock	det
12	debilitating	debilitate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 shock	amod
13	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experience	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 experience	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	experience	past · do-support	Peter	the first unfairness				as a debilitating shock	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer unfairness=Stimulus
2	debilitate	gerund							tree rules

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

Because he was bitten by a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 bitten	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bitten	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bitten	aux:pass
4	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 friend	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bitten	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · passive	a friend	he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

Because it hurt so much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 hurt	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Because the bite was unexpected to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 unexpected	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bite	det
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unexpected	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unexpected	cop
5	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unexpected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bite		him = he			unexpected property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because the unfairness, not the pain, dazed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 unfairness	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 unfairness	det
3	unfairness	unfairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dazed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pain	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 pain	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pain	det
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unfairness	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 unfairness	punct
9	dazed	daze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dazed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	daze	past		him = he				because the unfairness and the pain	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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