Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…
What quality did the Fairy attribute to boys whose hearts resemble Pinocchio's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality, hearts · What happens: do, resemble · To what, where: Fairy attribute, Pinocchio
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attribute | det |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attribute | amod |
| 6 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 boys | case |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resemble | nsubj |
| 11 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boys | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 resemble | obj |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Pinocchio | case |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | quality | the Fairy attribute | to boys | tree rules | |||
| 2 | resemble | present | hearts | Pinocchio | tree rules |
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
a kind heart that always tells the truth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 tells | advmod |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heart | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a kind heart | the truth | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a kind heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a kind heart and a generous spirit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spirit | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 6 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a brave spirit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | 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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