Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…
Which pirate, having been ordered to enter the cabin, first perished therein?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pirate · What happens: order, enter, perish · To what, where: pirate, cabin
This is exam question 1 of lesson 335 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die one by one and Peter faces Hook» 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 pirate | det |
| 2 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pirate | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ordered | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ordered | aux:pass |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enter | mark |
| 8 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cabin | det |
| 10 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 perished | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 perished | advmod |
| 13 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ordered | conj |
| 14 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 13 perished | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | gerund · perfect · passive | which pirate | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | which pirate not said here | the cabin | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cabin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | perish | participle | first, therein property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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
Tom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 · ✓ the right answer
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 · ← Mova's choice
The pirate Starkey, sadly
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 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pirate | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pirate | punct |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 2 pirate | advmod |
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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