Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

Which implement did Geppetto employ to peel the three pears?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: implement · What happens: employ, peel · To what, where: three pears

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1391 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio eats peels and cores, gets new feet, and chases the pipes» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employ	aux
4	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
5	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 peel	mark
7	peel	peel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employ	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pears	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pears	nummod
10	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peel	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which implement						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	peel	to-infinitive	which implement not said here	the three pears					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Source

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

A sharp kitchen knife and a bowl of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bowl	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowl	nmod

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

Option 2

A small sharp knife from the kitchen drawer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drawer	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawer	compound
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	nmod

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

Option 3

A hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hammer	det
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	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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