Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan and Wendy, part 28: Mr. Darling sulks…

In the passage, what does Peter instruct Tinker Bell to do upon entering the nursery?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: instruct, do, enter · To what, where: Tinker Bell, passage, nursery

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 instruct	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 instruct	obj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 instruct	aux
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	nsubj
8	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bell	compound
10	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 instruct	xcomp
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	14 entering	mark
14	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 do	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nursery	det
16	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entering	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present · do-support	Peter	Tinker Bell	the passage	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Peter not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	enter	gerund	Peter not said here	the nursery		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nursery=Destination

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

To wake Wendy up and ask her to open the window for him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wake	mark
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 wake	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ask	cc
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wake	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 open	mark
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 open	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	9 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	to-infinitive	Wendy				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wendy=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive		Wendy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	the window		again	for him = he	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 2

To open the door wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 open	mark
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obj
5	wide	wide	ADV	_	2 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive		the door				wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To close and bar the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 close	mark
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bar	cc
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	to-infinitive		the window					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To close and bar the window so that Wendy cannot come back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 close	mark
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bar	cc
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 close	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	to-infinitive		the window					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
2	not come back	can	Wendy						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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