Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

What did the Talking Cricket declare concerning the Marionette's character?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Talking Cricket · What happens: declare, concern · To what, where: character

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 declare	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declare	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cricket	det
4	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cricket	compound
5	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declare	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 declare	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Marionette	det
9	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 character	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Marionette	case
11	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · do-support	the Talking Cricket						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	concern	gerund	the Talking Cricket not said here	the Marionette's character					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus character=Experiencer

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

He is a fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fool	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a fool					tree rules

Option 2

He is a liar of the lowest kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 liar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 liar	det
4	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a liar				of the lowest kind	tree rules

Option 3

He is a good boy at heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 heart	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a good boy		heart			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is a rascal of the worst kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rascal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rascal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rascal	det
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rascal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a rascal				of the worst kind	tree rules

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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