Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medici…

Identify the oath which Peter swears before undertaking his perilous quest against the pirates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, oath, Peter · What happens: identify, swear, undertake, quest · To what, where: oath, perilous quest

This is exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medicine, and Tink drinks it to save him» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oath	det
3	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 swears	nsubj
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swears	nsubj
6	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 oath	acl:relcl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 undertaking	mark
8	undertaking	undertake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 swears	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 quest	nmod:poss
10	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quest	amod
11	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 undertaking	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 pirates	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pirates	det
14	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 undertaking	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the oath		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
2	swear	present	the oath			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	undertake	gerund	the oath not said here	Peter's perilous quest	against the pirates	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality
4	quest		Peter			nom quest «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 right answer

"Hook or me this time"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hook	punct
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 me	cc
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Hook	conj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hook	obl:unmarked
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hook	punct

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

Option 2

I will find Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	I	Hook					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic

Option 3

I swear by the stars I will fight Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 swear	nsubj
2	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 stars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stars	det
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swear	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fight	aux
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swear	conj
9	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	I					by the stars	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fight	future	I	Hook					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Co-Agent

Option 4

Tink, I swear this

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swear	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tink	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 swear	nsubj
4	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 swear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	I	this				Tink vocative	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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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