Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

To what creatures did the children fling the buried treasure, and for what purpose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creatures, children · What happens: do, fling, bury · To what, where: buried treasure

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fling	nsubj
7	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 treasure	det
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 treasure	amod
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	parataxis
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	creatures		tree rules
2	fling	present	the children	the buried treasure	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
3	bury	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

the gulls, as a mischievous amusement to pass the time on the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gulls	det
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pass	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 pass	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 amusement	det
6	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amusement	amod
7	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pass	mark
9	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 rock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive	the gulls			the rock	time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 2

the gulls and the mermaids, as a mischievous amusement and a bit of mockery

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gulls	det
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mermaids	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mermaids	det
5	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gulls	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 amusement	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 amusement	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 amusement	det
9	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amusement	amod
10	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gulls	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bit	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amusement	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mockery	case
15	mockery	mockery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the gulls, as a mischievous amusement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gulls	det
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 amusement	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 amusement	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 amusement	det
6	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amusement	amod
7	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gulls	conj

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

Option 4

the seabirds, as a playful game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seabirds	det
2	seabirds	seabird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 game	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 game	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
6	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seabirds	conj

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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