Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

State the reason the Manager gives for disposing of the animal at market.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: State · What happens: give, dispose · To what, where: market

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj:outer
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Manager	det
5	Manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 disposing	mark
8	disposing	dispose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gives	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 animal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disposing	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 market	case
13	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disposing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	State						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	dispose	gerund	State not said here			market		of the animal	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

he is lame and of no use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lame	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lame	cop
3	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 use	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 use	det
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lame	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					lame property	tree rules

Option 2

he bites and is of no use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 use	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 use	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 use	det
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	he						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he not said here					of no use	tree rules

Option 3

he kicks, so he's useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicks	nsubj
2	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 useless	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 useless	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 useless	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	cop
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kicks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	present	he						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	he					useless property	tree rules

Option 4

he is sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					sick property	tree rules

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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