Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

According to the narrative, by what means did Peter approach the brig?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: accord, mean, approach · To what, where: narrative, brig · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 334 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter ticks his way aboard the ship» 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 approach	aux
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 approach	nsubj
11	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brig	det
13	brig	brig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 approach	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			to the narrative goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrative=Goal
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	approach	past · do-support	Peter	the brig		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brig=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 · ← Mova's choice

by rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 rope	case
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by floating on the tide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 floating	mark
2	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tide	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tide	det
5	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				the tide			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tide=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by swimming up the side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 swimming	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swimming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	gerund		the side					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory

Option 4

by boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 boat	case
2	boat	boat	NOUN	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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