Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Which of the following accurately states the action taken by the Marionette upon the injury sustained by the boy named Eugene?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, take, sustain, name · To what, where: action, injury, boy

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1402 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio fights his schoolmates and a boy falls as if dead» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 action	det
8	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 action	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 Marionette	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Marionette	det
12	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 injury	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 injury	det
15	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
16	sustained	sustain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 injury	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 boy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sustained	obl:agent
20	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 boy	acl
21	Eugene	Eugene	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 named	xcomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present	the action	accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent action=Topic
3	take	participle	the action not said here	by the Marionette; upon the injury	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sustain	participle	the injury not said here		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
5	name	participle	the boy not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 gave the boy water to drink after the fall

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drink	mark
7	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 fall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fall	det
10	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	the boy water					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive	He not said here				after the fall		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He bathed the boy's head with a damp handkerchief

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 bathed	nsubj
2	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 handkerchief	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 handkerchief	det
9	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handkerchief	amod
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	past	He	the boy's head				with a damp handkerchief	tree rules

Option 3

He bathed the boy's head

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 bathed	nsubj
2	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	past	He	the boy's head					tree rules

Option 4

He pressed a cold cloth on the boy's arm

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 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 arm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arm	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 boy	case
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	He	a cold cloth		the boy's arm			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme

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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