Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

Which circumstance most plausibly accounts for the Marionette's consumption of chick-peas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Marionette · What happens: consume · To what, where: chick peas

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 circumstance	det
2	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accounts	compound
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 plausibly	advmod
4	plausibly	plausibly	ADV	_	2 circumstance	advmod
5	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 consumption	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Marionette	det
8	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 consumption	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Marionette	case
10	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accounts	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 peas	case
12	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peas	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 chick	punct
14	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 consumption	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 accounts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume		the Marionette	chick peas					nom consumption «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

the intensity of his hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intensity	det
2	intensity	intensity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hunger	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hunger	nmod:poss
5	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intensity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunger		his = he						nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

the strength of his appetite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strength	det
2	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 appetite	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 appetite	nmod:poss
5	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strength	nmod

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

Option 3

his stomach was empty and the coop was full of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stomach	nmod:poss
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 empty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 full	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coop	det
7	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 full	cop
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 empty	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his stomach					empty property	tree rules
2	is	past	the coop					of food; full property	tree rules

Option 4

the sheer intensity of his hunger after the long flight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intensity	det
2	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 intensity	amod
3	intensity	intensity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hunger	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hunger	nmod:poss
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 intensity	nmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 flight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flight	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flight	amod
10	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 intensity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunger		his = he						nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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