Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed fro…

Upon what occasion were the prison doors of the City of Simple Simons opened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: occasion · What happens: be, open · To what, where: prison doors

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1398 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed from prison, a Serpent blocks the road, caught by a Farmer» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doors	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doors	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doors	det
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doors	compound
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 City	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 City	det
10	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doors	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Simple	case
12	Simple	Simple	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 City	nmod
13	Simons	Simons	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Simple	flat
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doors	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	occasion	the prison doors				of the City of Simple	tree rules
2	open	past							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

In celebration of a great victory over an enemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 celebration	case
2	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 victory	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 victory	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 victory	amod
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 enemy	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 enemy	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 victory	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate			a great victory over a enemy					nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To celebrate the birth of a royal heir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 celebrate	mark
2	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birth	det
4	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebrate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 heir	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heir	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heir	amod
8	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	to-infinitive		the birth of a royal heir					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

Option 3

In celebration of a great victory over an enemy, with music, dancing, and grand feasts

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 celebration	case
2	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 victory	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 victory	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 victory	amod
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 enemy	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 enemy	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 victory	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 music	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 music	case
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dancing	punct
14	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 celebration	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feasts	cc
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feasts	amod
18	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 celebration	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate			a great victory over a enemy					nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

In celebration of a great victory over an enemy army at the northern border

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 celebration	case
2	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 victory	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 victory	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 victory	amod
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 army	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 army	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 army	compound
10	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 victory	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 border	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 border	det
13	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 border	amod
14	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate			a great victory over a enemy army		the northern border			nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient at=place

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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