Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…
What did the Green Fisherman believe Pinocchio to be upon examining him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Green Fisherman · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: Pinocchio
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 believe | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fisherman | det |
| 4 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fisherman | amod |
| 5 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 examining | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 examining | cop |
| 10 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 11 examining | mark |
| 11 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 believe | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 examining | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past · do-support | the Green Fisherman | Pinocchio | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme pinocchio=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the Green Fisherman not said here | examine property | 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
Fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A shark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Eel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eel | eel | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1403-pg500-part16/e4/