Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…
For what purpose did Mastro Cherry originally intend to employ the piece of timber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: do, intend, employ · To what, where: Mastro Cherry, piece
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1388 «Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, two old men fight, a puppet is named» 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Mastro | Mastro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cherry | compound |
| 6 | Cherry | Cherry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 8 intend | advmod |
| 8 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 employ | mark |
| 10 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 intend | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 employ | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 timber | case |
| 14 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | purpose | Mastro Cherry | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherry=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | intend | present | purpose not said here | originally property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | employ not said to happen | to-infinitive | purpose not said here | the piece of timber | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
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
as a leg for a chair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 leg | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leg | det |
| 3 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 chair | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leg | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
as the leg of a table in the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 leg | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leg | det |
| 3 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leg | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
as the leg of a table for his grand new kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 leg | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leg | det |
| 3 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leg | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kitchen | amod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kitchen | amod |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
as the leg of a table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 leg | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leg | det |
| 3 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leg | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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