Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 20: Wendy plans to leave, Peter…

With reference to the passage, what does Tink do when Nibs first calls her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tink, Nibs · What happens: do, call · To what, where: Tink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 329 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 20: Wendy plans to leave, Peter stays, pirates attack» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 calls	advmod
12	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 calls	nsubj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 calls	advmod
14	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 do	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 calls	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	Tink					with reference to the passage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	call	present	Nibs		Tink			first property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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

She ignores him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	nsubj
2	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	She	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She pretends to be asleep again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretends	nsubj
2	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 asleep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretends	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 pretends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	She				again		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	She not said here					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

She pretends to be dead again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretends	nsubj
2	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 dead	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretends	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 pretends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	She				again		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	She not said here					dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She says she is asleep again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asleep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	She				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					asleep property	tree rules

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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