Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

What was the destination to which Lamp-Wick proposed that Pinocchio should depart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: destination, Lamp, Pinocchio · What happens: be, propose, depart · To what, where: destination

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 destination	det
4	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 proposed	obl
7	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 proposed	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Wick	punct
9	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Lamp	conj
10	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destination	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 depart	mark
12	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 depart	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 depart	aux
14	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 proposed	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the destination		tree rules
2	propose	past	Lamp and Wick	the destination	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic
3	depart	should	Pinocchio		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Toyland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toyland	Toyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Land of Candy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Land	det
2	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Candy	case
4	Candy	Candy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Land	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Land of Toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Land	det
2	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Toys	case
4	Toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Land	nmod

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

Option 4

The sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	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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