Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

By what means did the boys return to their homes after searching the lagoon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: mean, do, return, search · To what, where: lagoon

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 return	nsubj
7	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 homes	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 homes	nmod:poss
10	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 return	obl
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 searching	mark
12	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 return	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lagoon	det
14	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 searching	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				tree rules
3	return	present	the boys		to boys's homes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	search	gerund	the boys not said here	the lagoon		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lagoon=Location

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 canoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canoe	det
2	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the dinghy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinghy	det
2	dinghy	dinghy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a rowboat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rowboat	det
2	rowboat	rowboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the dinghy that had brought them to the lagoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinghy	det
2	dinghy	dinghy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 brought	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dinghy	acl:relcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 lagoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lagoon	det
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect · passive		the dinghy				to the lagoon	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme

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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