Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

With reference to the text, of what substance was the bread on the breakfast tray composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: be, compose · To what, where: bread, breakfast tray

This is exam question 2 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
9	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bread	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bread	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bread	det
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 tray	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tray	det
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tray	compound
16	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bread	nmod
17	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tray	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	substance	the bread		the breakfast tray			tree rules
2	compose	participle		the breakfast tray not said here					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: 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

Painted wood pulp mixed with glue and flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pulp	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulp	compound
3	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pulp	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 glue	case
6	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flour	cc
8	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mix	participle		Painted wood pulp not said here				with glue and flour	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with glue=Co-Patient

Option 2

Sawdust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chalk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Plaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plaster	plaster	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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