Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 6: a sly Fox and Cat…

Identify the sum of money the Fox claimed Pinocchio would receive from his five gold pieces by the following morning.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Fox, Pinocchio · What happens: identify, claim, receive, follow, sum · To what, where: sum, money, five gold pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1393 «Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 6: a sly Fox and Cat talk Pinocchio into a plan for gold, then vanish at the inn» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sum	det
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sum	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fox	det
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 claimed	nsubj
8	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 money	acl:relcl
9	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 receive	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 receive	aux
11	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 claimed	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pieces	nmod:poss
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pieces	nummod
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pieces	compound
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 receive	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 morning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morning	det
19	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 receive	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sum of money			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
2	claim speech: other	past	the Fox	money not said here			tree rules
3	receive	would	Pinocchio		Pinocchio's five gold pieces	morning	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from piece=Source
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sum			money			nom sum «possession transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Five gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two hundred coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 coins	nummod
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two thousand gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pieces	nummod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	compound
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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