Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

By what means of conveyance did the Marionette traverse the sky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marionette · What happens: mean, traverse · To what, where: sky

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1400 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to the shore, dives in to save Geppetto, and reaches the Land of the Busy Bees» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 traverse	advcl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 conveyance	case
5	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obl
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 traverse	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Marionette	det
8	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 traverse	nsubj
9	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 traverse	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 traverse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						of conveyance	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	traverse	past · do-support	the Marionette	the sky					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Co-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

on the back of a crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 crow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crow	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

upon the back of a Pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Pigeon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Pigeon	det
6	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 back	nmod

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

Option 3

by a kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 kite	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kite	det
3	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

on a cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 cloud	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
3	cloud	cloud	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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