Exam question 2 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carr…
By what means were the captive boys transported to the ship?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captive boys · What happens: mean, be, transport · To what, where: captive boys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boys | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 6 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boys | amod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 transported | nsubj |
| 8 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transported | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the captive boys | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | transport | past | the captive boys | to the ship | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
inside the hollow tree house on wheels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 wheels | case |
| 7 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
in a wooden cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cart | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cart | det |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cart | amod |
| 4 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
carried in the little house through the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 carried | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | participle | the little house | through the wood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in the little house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | 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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