Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Never Bird, part 17: Hook's bite leaves Pet…

What did the tiny bells rung by the mermaids' doors signify to Peter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny bells · What happens: do, ring, signify · To what, where: tiny bells, Peter

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bells	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bells	amod
5	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 signify	nsubj
6	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bells	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 doors	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mermaids	det
9	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 doors	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 mermaids	case
11	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rung	obl
12	signify	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Peter	case
14	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 signify	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ring	participle		the tiny bells not said here		by the mermaids's doors	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location
3	signify	present	the tiny bells		Peter		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to peter=Attribute

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 mermaids' doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaids	det
2	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 doors	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 mermaids	case
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the opening and closing of their doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 opening	det
2	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 closing	cc
4	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opening	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 doors	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 doors	nmod:poss
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opening	nmod

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

Option 3

the signal that the mermaids were leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 signal	det
2	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mermaids	det
5	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaving	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leaving	aux
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 signal	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	the mermaids	the signal not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme

Option 4

the sounds of the mermaids' homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sounds	det
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 homes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mermaids	det
5	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 homes	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 mermaids	case
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sounds	nmod

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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