Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

What principal moral does the Talking Cricket convey to Pinocchio before his death?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Talking Cricket, Cricket · What happens: convey, die · To what, where: Pinocchio

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» 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 convey	obl
2	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moral	amod
3	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 convey	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cricket	det
6	Talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Cricket	compound
7	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convey	nsubj
8	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Pinocchio	case
10	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 convey	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 death	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 death	nmod:poss
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convey	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 convey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	present · do-support	the Talking Cricket		Pinocchio		before Cricket's death		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pinocchio=Recipient
2	die		Cricket						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Disobedient children will suffer serious trouble later on in life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suffer	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	aux
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trouble	amod
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 suffer	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	future	Disobedient children	serious trouble		life		late property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus

Option 2

Lazy children will be punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 punished	nsubj:pass
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 punished	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 punished	aux:pass
5	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	future · passive		Lazy children					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Disobedient children will suffer later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suffer	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	aux
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 suffer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	future	Disobedient children					late property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Children who run away from home end up in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Children	acl:relcl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	present	Children			home		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory
2	end up	present	Children					in trouble result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in trouble=Result

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