Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

Which instrument did Hook order Smee to sound, so that the boys would be deceived?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: order, sound, deceive · To what, where: Smee, boys

This is exam question 3 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 order	aux
4	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 order	nsubj
5	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 order	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sound	mark
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 order	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 deceived	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 deceived	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 deceived	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 deceived	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 deceived	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 deceived	aux:pass
16	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sound	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 order	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	order	past · do-support	which instrument		Smee	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent smee=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive	which instrument not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	deceive	would · passive		the boys		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The tomahawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The tom-tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tom	det
2	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tom	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tom	punct
4	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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