Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about…
To what arrangement did Mrs. Darling agree in respect of Wendy's annual visits?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: arrangement, Wendy · What happens: do, agree, respect, visit · To what, where: Mrs. Darling, respect, annual visits
This is exam question 1 of lesson 339 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about Neverland» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 agree | obl |
| 3 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Darling | compound |
| 6 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 respect | case |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agree | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 visits | case |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 visits | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Wendy | case |
| 13 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 visits | amod |
| 14 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 respect | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 agree | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | arrangement | Mrs. Darling | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darling=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | respect of Wendy's annual visits | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | respect | Wendy's annual visits | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | visit | Wendy | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
A week each year to perform his spring cleaning and help at the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perform | mark |
| 6 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | compound |
| 9 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | to-infinitive | each year | his spring cleaning and help | the house | week | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Theme | ||
| 2 | clean | his = he | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
A week each year to perform his spring cleaning, with Wendy's mother watching
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perform | mark |
| 6 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | compound |
| 9 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mother | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 12 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Wendy | case |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obl |
| 15 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mother | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | to-infinitive | each year | his spring cleaning | week | with Wendy's mother | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Theme | ||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Wendy's mother not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clean | his = he | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
A kiss each spring for cleaning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kiss | det |
| 2 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kiss | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 cleaning | case |
| 6 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kiss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A week each year to perform his spring cleaning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 week | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perform | mark |
| 6 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 week | acl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | compound |
| 9 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | to-infinitive | his spring cleaning | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Theme | |||||
| 2 | clean | his = he | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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