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title: Upon whom did Mrs. Darling chance in the course of tidying her child… — Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon whom did Mrs. Darling chance in the course of tidying her children's minds? Exam question 4 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 question 
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# Exam question 4 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Breaks Through, part 1: the Darling…

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Upon whom did Mrs. Darling chance in the course of tidying her children's minds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** course, children · **What happens:** do, tidy, mind · **To what, where:** Mrs. Darling chance, course, minds

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e4:1
# text = Upon whom did Mrs. Darling chance in the course of tidying her children's minds?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Mrs. Darling chance |  | the course |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tidy** | gerund | the course *not said here* | her children's minds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** |  | her children |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e4:o1:1
# text = Pan
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Peter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e4:o2:1
# text = Peter
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tinker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e4:o3:1
# text = Tinker
1	Tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:310-pg16-part1:e4:o4:1
# text = Hook
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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