Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

Which person was struck down and cast overboard by Peter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: strike down, cast · To what, where: person

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	aux:pass
4	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 struck	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cast	cc
7	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
8	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	7 cast	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Peter	case
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike down	past · passive		which person					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument
2	cast	present						by Peter; overboard property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by peter=Destination

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

Ed Starkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ed	Ed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ed	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ed Teynte

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ed	Ed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Teynte	Teynte	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ed	flat

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

Option 3

Cecco Mullins, the pirate with the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Mullins	Mullins	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cecco	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pirate	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pirate	det
5	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cecco	appos
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pirate	nmod

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

Option 4

the pirate Ed Teynte, bosun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pirate	det
2	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Ed	Ed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pirate	appos
4	Teynte	Teynte	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ed	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bosun	punct
6	bosun	bosun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pirate	conj

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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