Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

Which garment did Geppetto dispose of in order to purchase the A-B-C book?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment · What happens: dispose, purchase · To what, where: C book

This is exam question 3 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 garment	det
2	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dispose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dispose	aux
4	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dispose	nsubj
5	dispose	dispose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 dispose	obl
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 purchase	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 purchase	mark
10	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dispose	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 A	reparandum
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 book	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 A	punct
14	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 C	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 B	punct
16	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 book	compound
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 purchase	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dispose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispose	past · do-support	which garment						vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
2	purchase	to-infinitive	which garment not said here	a C book					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset book=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

His hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

His boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 boots	nmod:poss
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His best cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cap	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cap	amod
3	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His old coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coat	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coat	amod
3	coat	coat	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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