Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

Which character is described as having "a noble sense of justice and a lion's courage" in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, have, sense · To what, where: character, noble sense, passage, justice

This is exam question 1 of lesson 337 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks in the kennel; Peter bars the window» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 having	mark
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sense	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sense	det
9	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sense	amod
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 justice	case
12	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sense	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 courage	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lion	det
15	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 courage	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 lion	case
17	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sense	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 courage	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 passage	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 passage	det
21	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	which character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	have	gerund	a noble sense of justice and a lion's courage	the passage	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
3	sense in a quote		justice		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Captain Hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hook	compound
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mr. Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	nmod:desc
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Mrs. Darling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	compound
2	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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