Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan: Wendy grows up and tells Jane about…

What was the nature of Peter's response when Wendy asked after Tinker Bell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, Wendy · What happens: be, ask

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 response	case
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Peter	case
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 response	acl:relcl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 Bell	case
13	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bell	compound
14	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of Peter's response						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Wendy				after Tinker Bell		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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

He said he did not know

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	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	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He asked who she was and whether she was a fairy

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 asked	ccomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 who	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fairy	cc
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 fairy	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fairy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fairy	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she		tree rules
3	is a	past	she	a fairy	tree rules

Option 3

He asked who she meant

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 meant	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	past							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He asked who she was

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 asked	ccomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 who	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she						tree rules

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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