Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

Notwithstanding his fear of the Shark, what course of action did the Marionette adopt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marionette, his · What happens: notwithstand, adopt, fear · To what, where: fear, Shark

This is exam question 4 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	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 adopt	csubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fear	nmod:poss
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Notwithstanding	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Shark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shark	det
6	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fear	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 course	punct
8	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	9 course	det
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 action	case
11	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 course	nmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 adopt	aux
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Marionette	det
14	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 adopt	nsubj
15	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 adopt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	notwithstand	gerund		his fear of the Shark and what course of action	tree rules
2	adopt	past · do-support	the Marionette		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fear		his = he	the Shark	nom fear «feeling 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

he ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	he					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he departed at a swift gait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 departed	nsubj
2	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 gait	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gait	det
5	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gait	compound
6	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 departed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	past	he			a swift gait			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he hid behind a big rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 rock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			a big rock			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location

Option 4

he sailed toward the distant shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shore	amod
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	he			the distant shore			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward shore=Trajectory

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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