Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…

Upon what pretext did Peter assume Wendy's place at the mast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: assume · To what, where: place, mast

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 assume	obj
3	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assume	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 assume	nsubj
6	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Wendy	case
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assume	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 mast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mast	det
12	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assume	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 assume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assume	past · do-support	Peter	Wendy's place		the mast			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme place=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

To pass for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive						for her = she	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To look like her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						like her = she	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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