Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

What was the nature of the advertisement for the performance mentioned in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, mention · To what, where: performance, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1408 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two boys turn into donkeys and are sold» 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 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 advertisement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 advertisement	det
7	advertisement	advertisement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 performance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 performance	det
10	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advertisement	nmod
11	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 performance	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mentioned	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the advertisement for the performance						tree rules
2	mention speech: other	participle		the performance not said here		the passage			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

A loud shout from the crowd outside the tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shout	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shout	amod
3	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 crowd	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	nmod
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 tent	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tent	det
9	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crowd	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was an announcement posted in large letters around the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 announcement	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 announcement	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 announcement	det
4	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 announcement	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 letters	case
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 letters	amod
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 posted	obl
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 posted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a announcement					tree rules
2	post	participle		a announcement not said here		large letters		around the town	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A street sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A letter sent to each family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 letter	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		a letter not said here		each family			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to family=Destination

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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