Exam question 4 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carr…

What had Slightly done in order to fit his tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fit · To what, where: order, tree

This is exam question 4 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	4 done	obj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fit	mark
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tree	nmod:poss
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fit	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect				order		slightly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	fit	to-infinitive		his tree					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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 · ✓ the right answer

whittled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whittled	whittle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whittled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whittle	past		it					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 2

bent the branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bent	bent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branch	det
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bent	imperative	you not said here	the branch					tree rules

Option 3

carved it bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 carved	obj
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 carved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past		it				big property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he carved the whole trunk down to fit his body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carved	nsubj
2	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trunk	amod
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carved	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	2 carved	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fit	mark
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carved	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	he	the whole trunk				down property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
2	fit	to-infinitive	he not said here	his body					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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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