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title: Which phrase best describes the medicine that Mr. Darling disliked? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which phrase best describes the medicine that Mr. Darling disliked? Exam question 2 of lesson 313 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana tied up, the stars call for the grown-ups to leave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana…

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Which phrase best describes the medicine that Mr. Darling disliked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phrase · **What happens:** describe, dislike · **To what, where:** medicine

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 313 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 4: Father's bad medicine, Nana tied up, the stars call for the grown-ups to leave» 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/313-pg16-part4/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:313-pg16-part4:e2:1
# text = Which phrase best describes the medicine that Mr. Darling disliked?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | which phrase | the medicine |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 2 | **dislike** | participle · passive |  | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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Thick and brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:313-pg16-part4:e2:o1:1
# text = Thick and brown
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thick, nasty and tasting of old socks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:313-pg16-part4:e2:o2:1
# text = Thick, nasty and tasting of old socks
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tasting	tasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** |  |  | old socks |  |  |  |  | nom tasting «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sour, vile and foul smelling in the bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:313-pg16-part4:e2:o3:1
# text = Sour, vile and foul smelling in the bottle
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  | the bottle |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sticky and sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:313-pg16-part4:e2:o4:1
# text = Sticky and sweet
1	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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