Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Which individual is recorded as having been slain by the tomahawk of Panther?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tomahawk · What happens: record, slay · To what, where: individual

This is exam question 2 of lesson 330 «Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surprise the Piccaninnies in the dark, and Hook tricks the boys with the tom-tom» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 recorded	aux:pass
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 slain	mark
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 slain	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 slain	aux:pass
8	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recorded	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tomahawk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tomahawk	det
11	tomahawk	tomahawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slain	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Panther	case
13	Panther	Panther	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tomahawk	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 recorded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	present · passive		which individual					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	slay	gerund · perfect · passive	the tomahawk of Panther						vn murder-42.1 «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 pirate who led the crew into the camp at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pirate	det
2	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pirate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crew	det
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 camp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 camp	det
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the pirate	the crew		the camp	dawn		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crew=Theme into camp=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Geo. Turley

Sentence 1: Geo.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Geo	geo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Geo	punct

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

Sentence 2: Turley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turley	Turley	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Bill Jukes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bill	flat

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

Option 4

Lean Wolf, who was cut down near the tom-tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lean	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cut	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux:pass
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lean	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	near	near	ADP	_	12 tom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tom	det
10	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tom	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tom	punct
12	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here	Wolf					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=Theme
2	cut down	past · passive				the tom tom			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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