Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio…

What duration of insensibility is described following the Marionette's ingestion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marionette · What happens: describe, follow, ingest · To what, where: duration

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 duration	det
2	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 insensibility	case
4	insensibility	insensibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 duration	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 described	aux:pass
6	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ingestion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Marionette	det
9	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ingestion	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Marionette	case
11	ingestion	ingestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 described	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		what duration of insensibility	follow the Marionette's ingestion	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ingest		the Marionette			nom ingestion «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Half an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A whole day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Half an hour, until the Tunny woke him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woke	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woke	punct
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 woke	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tunny	det
7	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 woke	nsubj
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woke	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	the Tunny	him = he			hour		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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