Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio…
What designation is conferred upon the Shark by the fish and fishermen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: confer · To what, where: designation
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1410 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio is swallowed by the Shark» 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 | 4 conferred | obj |
| 2 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conferred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conferred | aux:pass |
| 4 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 Shark | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Shark | det |
| 7 | Shark | Shark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conferred | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fish | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 conferred | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fishermen | cc |
| 12 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fish | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 conferred | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | present · passive | the fish and fishermen | designation | upon the Shark | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
"The Attila of the Sea"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Attila | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Attila | det |
| 3 | Attila | Attila | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sea | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Attila | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Attila | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"The Hunter of the Depths"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hunter | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hunter | det |
| 3 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Depths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Depths | det |
| 6 | Depths | Depth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Hunter | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hunter | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"The Scourge of the Deep"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Scourge | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scourge | det |
| 3 | Scourge | Scourge | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Deep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Deep | det |
| 6 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Scourge | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Scourge | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
"The Shark"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Shark | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Shark | det |
| 3 | Shark | Shark | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Shark | punct |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1410-pg500-part23/e2/