Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Which creature was dispatched by the Lovely Maiden to release the Marionette from the oak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lovely Maiden · What happens: dispatch, release · To what, where: creature, Marionette, oak

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1395 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assassins hang him, and the Fairy saves him» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dispatched	aux:pass
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 Maiden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Maiden	det
7	Lovely	Lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Maiden	compound
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 release	mark
10	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dispatched	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Marionette	det
12	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 release	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 oak	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oak	det
15	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 release	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dispatched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispatch	past · passive	the Lovely Maiden	which creature					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	release	to-infinitive	the Lovely Maiden not said here	the Marionette		the oak			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer marionette=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 · ← Mova's choice

A Hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A Tiny Wren from the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Wren	det
2	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wren	amod
3	Wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wren	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A Falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

An Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Owl	det
2	Owl	owl	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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