Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to th…

Which figure did Slightly declare for the surviving boys, and was this figure accurate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: figure · What happens: declare, survive, be

This is exam question 3 of lesson 336 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to the crocodile, and the children sail for home» 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declare	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declare	aux
4	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	5 declare	advmod
5	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 boys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
8	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 boys	amod
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 declare	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accurate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 accurate	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 accurate	cop
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 figure	det
14	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 accurate	nsubj
15	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 declare	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · do-support	which figure	for the surviving boys; slightly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	survive	gerund			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	this figure	accurate property	tree rules

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

He declared seventeen, which was inaccurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 declared	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inaccurate	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 inaccurate	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inaccurate	cop
7	inaccurate	inaccurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seventeen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He	seventeen					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventeen=Attribute
2	is	past						inaccurate property	tree rules

Option 2

He declared seventeen boys, which was a wrong count and inaccurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boys	nummod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 declared	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 count	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 count	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 count	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 count	amod
10	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boys	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 inaccurate	cc
12	inaccurate	inaccurate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 count	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He	seventeen boys					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Attribute
2	is a	past	seventeen boys	a wrong count and inaccurate					tree rules

Option 3

He declared seventeen, which was inaccurate, though he insisted it was right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 declared	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inaccurate	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 inaccurate	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inaccurate	cop
7	inaccurate	inaccurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seventeen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 insisted	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 insisted	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 insisted	nsubj
11	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 right	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 insisted	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He	seventeen		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventeen=Attribute
2	is	past			inaccurate property	tree rules
3	insist speech: other	past	he			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	it		right property	tree rules

Option 4

He declared nineteen, which was inaccurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 declared	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inaccurate	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 inaccurate	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inaccurate	cop
7	inaccurate	inaccurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nineteen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	He	nineteen					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nineteen=Attribute
2	is	past						inaccurate property	tree rules

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