Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

By what name did the boys of the neighbourhood address Geppetto?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: boys

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 name	nsubj
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 address	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 address	det
9	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 address	compound
10	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boys	nmod
11	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 address	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boys of the neighbourhood address				by name	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

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

Polendina the Yellow Wig Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
3	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Man	amod
4	Wig	Wig	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Man	compound
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Polendina	appos

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

Option 2

Polendina Gialla of the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Gialla	Gialla	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Polendina	flat
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 square	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 square	det
5	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Polendina	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Polendina

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Polendena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polendena	Polendena	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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