Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come h…

Identify the item of which Mr. Darling complained upon the arrival of the lost boys in the household.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Darling, lost boys · What happens: identify, complain, lose, arrive · To what, where: item

This is exam question 3 of lesson 338 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come home, and Peter flies off alone» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 complained	obl
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Darling	nmod:desc
7	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 complained	nsubj
8	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 item	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 arrival	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrival	det
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 complained	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 boys	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 boys	amod
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arrival	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 household	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 household	det
18	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boys	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	complain speech: other	past	Darling Mr.		of the item; upon the arrival of the lost boys in the household	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	arrive		the lost boys in the household			nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

The noise of the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		the boys						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

He lost his pipe

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pipe	nmod:poss
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his pipe					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He felt he was treated as a cypher

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 treated	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 treated	aux:pass
5	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 cypher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cypher	det
8	cypher	cypher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	treat	past · passive		he				as a cypher	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as cypher=Attribute

Option 4

He felt he was ignored by the boys

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ignored	aux:pass
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 boys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ignored	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	ignore	past · passive	the boys	he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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