Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 10: Pinocchio is rob…

Which phrase best describes the length of the Marionette's imprisonment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, Marionette · What happens: describe, imprison · To what, where: length

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1397 «Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 10: Pinocchio is robbed of his gold and sent to prison» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 length	det
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 imprisonment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Marionette	det
9	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 imprisonment	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Marionette	case
11	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 length	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the length of the Marionette's imprisonment				well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent length=Theme
2	imprison		the Marionette						nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Four months of confinement in a damp cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confinement	nmod:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 confinement	case
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cell	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cell	det
7	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cell	amod
8	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confinement	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four months of confinement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 confinement	case
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 months	nmod

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

Option 3

Four months of confinement and hard labour in the prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 confinement	case
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 months	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 labour	cc
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 labour	amod
7	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confinement	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 prison	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prison	det
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 labour	nmod

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

Option 4

Three months of exile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 exile	case
4	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 months	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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