Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

Which officer of the vessel was occupied with needlework during the nocturnal interval described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: officer · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: nocturnal interval

This is exam question 3 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 officer	det
2	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occupied	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 vessel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vessel	det
5	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 officer	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 occupied	cop
7	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 needlework	case
9	needlework	needlework	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occupied	obl
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 interval	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 interval	det
12	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 interval	amod
13	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occupied	obl
14	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 interval	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 occupied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which officer of the vessel				during the nocturnal interval	with needlework; occupied property	tree rules
2	describe	participle		the nocturnal interval not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Jukes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Smee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Cecco

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the bo'sun Mr. Smee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bo'sun	det
2	bo'sun	bo'sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Smee	nmod:desc
4	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bo'sun	appos

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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