Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

What measure did Hook threaten to adopt upon the children's refusal, as stated in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hook, children · What happens: be, threaten, adopt, state, refuse · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 threaten	obj
2	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threaten	aux
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	nsubj
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 adopt	mark
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 threaten	xcomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 refusal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 refusal	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 children	case
12	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adopt	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stated	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stated	mark
15	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 threaten	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 passage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stated	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	threaten	past · do-support	Hook			tree rules
3	adopt not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hook not said here		upon the children's refusal	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	state speech: other	participle	Hook not said here	the passage		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	refuse		the children			nom refusal «communication transitive»: 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

rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

gun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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