Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…
Which substance did the Fairy introduce into the glass of water administered to the Marionette?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: introduce, administer · To what, where: glass, water
This is exam question 4 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 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 introduce | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 introduce | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 introduce | nsubj |
| 6 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 glass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glass | det |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 introduce | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glass | nmod |
| 12 | administered | administer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 water | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Marionette | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Marionette | det |
| 15 | Marionette | Marionette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 administered | obl:agent |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 introduce | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past · do-support | which substance | the glass of water | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | administer | participle | water not said here | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
A pinch of white powder from the golden bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pinch | det |
| 2 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 powder | case |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 powder | amod |
| 5 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pinch | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bowl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bowl | amod |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pinch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | white powder | the golden bowl | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient from=place |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A white paste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 paste | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paste | amod |
| 3 | paste | paste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A white powder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 powder | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powder | amod |
| 3 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tiny white powder from a little paper packet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 powder | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 powder | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 powder | amod |
| 4 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 packet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 packet | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 packet | amod |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 packet | compound |
| 9 | packet | packet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 powder | nmod |
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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