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title: Pursuant to the text, at what age did Wendy first perceive her oblig… — Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to the text, at what age did Wendy first perceive her obligation to mature? Exam question 1 of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 1 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

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Pursuant to the text, at what age did Wendy first perceive her obligation to mature?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** age · **What happens:** perceive, mature, obligate · **To what, where:** obligation, text

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 310 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darlings and their dog nurse Nana» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/310-pg16-part1/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e1:1
# text = Pursuant to the text, at what age did Wendy first perceive her obligation to mature?
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	mature	mature	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past · do-support |  | age's obligation |  | the text |  | first *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent obligation=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **mature** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **obligate** |  | age |  |  |  |  |  | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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At about the age of four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e1:o1:1
# text = At about the age of four
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At the age of two years, when she first understood it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e1:o2:1
# text = At the age of two years, when she first understood it
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | she | age |  |  | at the age of two years | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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At the age of two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e1:o3:1
# text = At the age of two years
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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At the age of two years, as the narrator explains at length

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e1:o4:1
# text = At the age of two years, as the narrator explains at length
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the narrator |  |  |  | at the age of two years | at length | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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