Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

Which object was used to inflict the injury upon the schoolfellow Eugene?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: use, inflict · To what, where: object, injury

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1403 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase, a rescued dog, and a net full of fish» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 inflict	mark
6	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 injury	det
8	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inflict	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 schoolfellow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 schoolfellow	det
11	schoolfellow	schoolfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inflict	obl
12	Eugene	Eugene	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 schoolfellow	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		which object					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	inflict	to-infinitive		the injury				upon the schoolfellow	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 ruler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An arithmetic textbook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 textbook	det
2	arithmetic	arithmetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 textbook	amod
3	textbook	textbook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A heavy slate board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 board	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 board	amod
3	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 board	compound
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A wooden school desk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desk	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desk	amod
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desk	compound
4	desk	desk	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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