Exam question 3 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carr…

What occasioned Hook's hesitation at the foot of the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hook · What happens: occasion, hesitate · To what, where: hesitation, foot

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 occasioned	nsubj
2	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hesitation	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hook	case
5	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occasioned	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occasioned	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 occasioned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	past		Hook's hesitation		the foot of the tree			tree rules
2	hesitate		Hook						nom hesitation «cognition 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 sound of the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 crew	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crew	det
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	nmod

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

Option 2

Tinker Bell's bright light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bell	nmod:desc
2	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Bell	case
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light		Bell Tinker						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Peter's voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Peter	case
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Peter's impertinent appearance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appearance	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Peter	case
3	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 appearance	amod
4	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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