Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

In what location were the children confined prior to their appearance upon the deck?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: be

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 confined	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 confined	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 confined	nsubj
7	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 appearance	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 prior	fixed
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 appearance	nmod:poss
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confined	obl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 deck	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deck	det
14	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confined	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 confined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children					prior children's appearance; upon the deck; confine property	tree rules

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

the hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hold	det
2	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the lower cargo room beneath the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 room	amod
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 deck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deck	det
7	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod

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

Option 3

the locked cabin at the bottom of the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabin	det
2	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cabin	amod
3	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cabin	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the galley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 galley	det
2	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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