Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

Pursuant to the narrative, what did the Snail declare regarding her rate of locomotion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snail · What happens: declare, regard · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1405 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio is kept waiting, kicks the door, and is tempted away by Lamp-Wick» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declare	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declare	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 declare	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 declare	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Snail	det
9	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declare	nsubj
10	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rate	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rate	nmod:poss
13	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declare	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 locomotion	case
15	locomotion	locomotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rate	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · do-support	the Snail		the narrative			regard Snail's rate of locomotion	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to narrative=Recipient
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «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

That she had a sore shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 had	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shell	det
5	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	That	a sore shell					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient

Option 2

That the stairs were too steep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 steep	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stairs	det
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steep	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 steep	advmod
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					steep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That snails are never in a hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 snails	det
2	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurry	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurry	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hurry	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hurry	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hurry	det
7	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	that snails			a hurry			tree rules

Option 4

That she was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tired	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					tired property	tree rules

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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