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

What was the boy's reply to Pinocchio's offer of his coat for four pennies?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reply, boy, Pinocchio · What happens: be, reply, offer · To what, where: coat

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reply	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 offer	case
8	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 offer	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Pinocchio	case
10	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reply	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 coat	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 coat	nmod:poss
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offer	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 pennies	case
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pennies	nummod
16	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reply	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the boy's reply to Pinocchio's offer of Pinocchio's coat for four pennies			tree rules
2	reply		the boy		to Pinocchio's offer of Pinocchio's coat; for four pennies	nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl for=obl
3	offer		Pinocchio	Pinocchio's coat		nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

That a paper coat would be useless in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 coat	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 paper	det
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coat	compound
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 useless	cop
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 rain	case
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	that paper coat			rain		useless property	tree rules

Option 2

That the coat was far too big for his size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 coat	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 big	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 size	nmod:poss
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that coat					for his size; big, far property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That a coat made of paper would be useless and fall apart the moment it got wet in the rain

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 coat	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coat	det
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useless	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coat	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 paper	case
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 useless	cop
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fall	cc
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 useless	conj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 fall	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fall	obl:unmarked
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 moment	acl:relcl
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 got	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 rain	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rain	det
20	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		that coat not said here			of paper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	would	that coat				useless property	tree rules
3	fall apart	infinitive	that coat not said here			moment	apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	get	past	coat	the moment not said here	the rain		wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moment=Stimulus

Option 4

That he would never buy a coat made of paper because it is bad luck to wear one at all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 buy	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 buy	advmod
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 coat	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 paper	case
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 luck	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 luck	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 luck	cop
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 luck	amod
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wear	mark
17	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 buy	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wear	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not buy	would	he	That			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
2	make	participle		a coat not said here		of paper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is a	present	coat	bad luck			tree rules
4	wear	to-infinitive	he not said here	one	all		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source

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