Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio…

Name the classmate whom Pinocchio held responsible for his misfortune, and describe the advice that classmate gave him.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Pinocchio, classmate · What happens: name, hold, describe, give · To what, where: classmate, advice, Pinocchio

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1407 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio wakes with donkey ears, and he and Lamp-Wick both hide under cotton bags.» 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	Name	name	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 classmate	det
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Name	obj
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 held	obj
5	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 classmate	acl:relcl
7	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 held	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 misfortune	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 misfortune	nmod:poss
10	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 describe	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 describe	cc
13	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Name	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 advice	det
15	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 describe	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gave	obj
17	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 advice	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	name	imperative	you not said here	the classmate			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent classmate=Theme
2	hold	past	Pinocchio	the classmate		for Pinocchio's misfortune; responsible property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	describe	infinitive	you not said here	the advice			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
4	give	past	classmate	the advice	Pinocchio		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=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

Lamp-Wick, a bad friend.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wick	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct
3	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wick	appos
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct

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

Option 2

Lamp-Wick, to stay out late.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wick	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct
3	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Wick	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stay	compound:prt
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stay	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	to-infinitive						late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Lamp-Wick, who told him to skip school.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wick	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lamp	punct
3	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 skip	mark
9	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skip	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Lamp Wick		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	skip not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lamp Wick not said here	school					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lamp-Wick, who urged him to avoid studying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wick	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct
3	Wick	Wick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 urged	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 urged	nsubj
6	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Wick	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 urged	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avoid	mark
9	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 urged	advcl
10	studying	study	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 avoid	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Wick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	urge	past	Wick	Lamp	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	avoid	to-infinitive	Wick not said here		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	study	gerund			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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