Exam question 1 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carr…

Which instrument did Smee strike to signal the pirates' triumph?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument, pirates · What happens: strike, signal, triumph · To what, where: triumph

This is exam question 1 of lesson 331 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carried off, and Hook finds Peter asleep» 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 strike	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strike	aux
4	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strike	nsubj
5	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 signal	mark
7	signal	signal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 strike	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pirates	det
9	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 triumph	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 pirates	case
11	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 signal	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 strike	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	strike	past · do-support	which instrument		tree rules
2	signal speech: other	to-infinitive	which instrument not said here	the pirates's triumph	vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triumph=Topic
3	triumph		the pirates		nom triumph «event intransitive»: poss=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 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.

Option 2

a gong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gong	det
2	gong	gong	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drum	det
2	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the cymbal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cymbal	det
2	cymbal	cymbal	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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