Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…
Identify the character who is cruelly sold for the sum of four cents.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, sell, sum · To what, where: character, four cents
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 character | det |
| 3 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sold | aux:pass |
| 6 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 7 sold | advmod |
| 7 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 character | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sum | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sum | det |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sold | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cents | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 cents | nummod |
| 13 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sum | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the character | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell | present · passive | the character | for the sum of four cents; cruelly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for sum=Asset | ||||
| 3 | sum | four cents | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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
the Donkey, once the wooden boy who lied to everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Donkey | det |
| 2 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
| 4 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 7 boy | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Donkey | appos |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lied | nsubj |
| 9 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 everyone | case |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 lied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the wooden boy | to everyone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the Manager's dog, Lampwick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Manager | det |
| 2 | Manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Manager | case |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lampwick | punct |
| 6 | Lampwick | Lampwick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Donkey, formerly Pinocchio
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Donkey | det |
| 2 | Donkey | Donkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pinocchio | punct |
| 4 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 5 Pinocchio | advmod |
| 5 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Donkey | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Donkey, formerly Pinocchio, the naughty boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Donkey | det |
| 2 | Donkey | Donkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pinocchio | punct |
| 4 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 5 Pinocchio | advmod |
| 5 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Donkey | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boy | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Donkey | appos |
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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