Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

Which animal was dispatched by the Carabineers in pursuit of the Marionette?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Carabineers · What happens: dispatch, pursue · To what, where: animal, pursuit, Marionette

This is exam question 2 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dispatched	aux:pass
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Carabineers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Carabineers	det
7	Carabineers	carabineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dispatched	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 pursuit	case
9	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Marionette	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Marionette	det
12	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pursuit	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dispatched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispatch	past · passive	the Carabineers	which animal		pursuit of the Marionette			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	pursue			the Marionette					nom pursuit «act 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A large Mastiff named Alidoro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Mastiff	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mastiff	amod
3	Mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Mastiff	acl
5	Alidoro	Alidoro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a large Mastiff not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A tall greyhound named Rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 greyhound	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greyhound	amod
3	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 greyhound	acl
5	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a tall greyhound not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A small terrier named Bruno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 terrier	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 terrier	amod
3	terrier	terrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 terrier	acl
5	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a small terrier not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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