Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio…
Which of the following accurately states the price for which the ABC book was sold to the ragpicker?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, sell · To what, where: price, ABC book, ragpicker
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1392 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio saves Harlequin from Fire Eater's fire» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 states | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 states | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 states | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 states | nsubj |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 states | advmod |
| 6 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 price | det |
| 8 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 states | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sold | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 12 | ABC | ABC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 book | compound |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sold | aux:pass |
| 15 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 price | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ragpicker | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ragpicker | det |
| 18 | ragpicker | ragpicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sold | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 states | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the price | accurately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent price=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sell | past · passive | the ABC book | the ragpicker | for the price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme for which=Asset to ragpicker=Recipient |
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
Forty gold florins from the market stall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 florins | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 florins | compound |
| 3 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 stall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stall | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stall | compound |
| 7 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 florins | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Four pennies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pennies | nummod |
| 2 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten silver coins and an old ragged hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hat | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hat | amod |
| 7 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hat | amod |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | conj |
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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