Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 26: the pirates die o…

Which weapon did Captain Hook employ to restrain a boy as a buckler?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: weapon · What happens: hook, restrain · To what, where: employ, boy

This is exam question 3 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 weapon	det
2	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hook	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Hook	aux
4	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hook	nsubj
5	Hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hook	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 restrain	mark
8	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Hook	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 restrain	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 buckler	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 buckler	det
13	buckler	buckler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 restrain	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Hook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	past · do-support	which weapon	employ					tree rules
2	restrain	to-infinitive	which weapon not said here	a boy				as a buckler	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer boy=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

his hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hook	nmod:poss
2	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his left arm wrapped round a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arm	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arm	amod
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 arm	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrapped	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		his left arm not said here					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3

his sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

his pistol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pistol	nmod:poss
2	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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