Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, buyer · What happens: explain, acquire · To what, where: purpose, hide

This is exam question 3 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	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 acquires	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buyer	det
7	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acquires	nsubj
8	acquires	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Explain	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 animal	case
12	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acquires	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the purpose					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	acquire	present	the buyer	the animal's hide					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent hide=Theme for which=Asset

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

to make shoes and bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bags	cc
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		shoes and bags					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to fashion a drumhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fashion	mark
2	fashion	fashion	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drumhead	det
4	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fashion	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fashion	to-infinitive		a drumhead					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drumhead=Product

Option 3

to make a drum head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a drum head					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to fashion a drumhead for the band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fashion	mark
2	fashion	fashion	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drumhead	det
4	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fashion	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 band	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 band	det
7	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fashion	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fashion	to-infinitive		a drumhead				for the band	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drumhead=Product for band=Beneficiary

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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