Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

What accomplishments was Geppetto's proposed Marionette required to possess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: accomplishments · What happens: propose, be, possess

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 required	obj
2	accomplishments	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 required	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 required	cop
4	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Marionette	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Geppetto	case
6	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Marionette	amod
7	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 required	nsubj
8	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 possess	mark
10	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 required	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 required	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	propose	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	accomplishments	require property	tree rules
3	possess	to-infinitive	accomplishments not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 · ✓ the right answer

dancing, fencing and somersaults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fencing	punct
3	fencing	fencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 somersaults	cc
5	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	conj

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

Option 2

singing, fencing and wrestling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fencing	punct
3	fencing	fencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrestling	cc
5	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fencing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		fencing and wrestling					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fencing=Theme

Option 3

dancing, fencing and somersaults while carrying bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fencing	punct
3	fencing	fencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 somersaults	cc
5	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	conj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 carrying	mark
7	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 dancing	advcl
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		bread					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 4

dancing, fencing, somersaults and speaking aloud to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fencing	punct
3	fencing	fencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 somersaults	punct
5	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speaking	cc
7	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 dancing	conj
8	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	7 speaking	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						to people; aloud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent

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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