Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

To which quality of Peter does the narrator attribute the captain's extreme malice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: attribute · To what, where: extreme malice

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 quality	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 quality	det
3	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attribute	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Peter	case
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quality	nmod
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 attribute	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 narrator	det
8	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attribute	nsubj
9	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 captain	det
11	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 malice	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 captain	case
13	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 malice	amod
14	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attribute	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · do-support	the narrator	the captain's extreme malice				to which quality of Peter	tree rules

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

Pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Greed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His cockiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cockiness	nmod:poss
2	cockiness	cockiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

His bravery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bravery	nmod:poss
2	bravery	bravery	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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