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title: In what manner did the children rest while travelling on the wind? — Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner did the children rest while travelling on the wind? Exam question 1 of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 1 · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

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In what manner did the children rest while travelling on the wind?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** do, rest, travel · **To what, where:** manner, wind

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» 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/317-pg16-part8/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:e1:1
# text = In what manner did the children rest while travelling on the wind?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | what manner |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory |

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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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by lying flat upon the strong wind going their way east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:e1:o1:1
# text = by lying flat upon the strong wind going their way east
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	east	east	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the strong wind |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  | their way |  |  |  | east *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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by floating on the breeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:e1:o2:1
# text = by floating on the breeze
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  | the breeze |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by lying flat upon the wind with their arms outstretched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:e1:o3:1
# text = by lying flat upon the wind with their arms outstretched
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the wind |  | with their arms; flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location |
| 2 | **outstretch** | participle |  | their arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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by lying flat upon the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:e1:o4:1
# text = by lying flat upon the wind
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the wind |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wind=Location |

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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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