Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

Which sum of money did the Coal Man propose as remuneration for assistance with the two wagons?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sum · What happens: propose, sum · To what, where: money

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» 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 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 propose	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 money	case
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sum	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 propose	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
7	Coal	Coal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Man	compound
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 propose	nsubj
9	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 remuneration	case
11	remuneration	remuneration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 propose	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 assistance	case
13	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 propose	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 wagons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wagons	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wagons	nummod
17	wagons	wagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 assistance	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	which sum of money					as remuneration; for assistance with the two wagons	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sum			money					nom sum «possession transitive»: 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

six shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

four pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pennies	nummod
2	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

three pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pennies	nummod
2	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

four pennies and a sugar lump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pennies	nummod
2	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lump	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lump	det
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lump	compound
6	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pennies	conj

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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