Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

Which character, having been offered a position aboard the vessel, declined the offer on the grounds of his allegiance to the Crown?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: offer, decline · To what, where: position, offer, grounds

This is exam question 1 of lesson 333 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refuse, and Wendy is brought up» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declined	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 offered	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 offered	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 offered	aux:pass
6	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 character	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 position	det
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offered	obj
9	aboard	aboard	ADP	_	11 vessel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vessel	det
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 position	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 character	punct
13	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 offer	det
15	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declined	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 grounds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grounds	det
18	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 declined	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 allegiance	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 allegiance	nmod:poss
21	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grounds	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Crown	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Crown	det
24	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 allegiance	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 declined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	gerund · perfect · passive	which character not said here	a position				aboard the vessel	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: position=Theme
2	decline	past	which character	the offer		the grounds of character's allegiance to the Crown			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme

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

Curly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Michael Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Michael	flat

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

Option 3

Tootles the lost boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tootles	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	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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