Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…

What is the principal cause of Geppetto's survival within the Shark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geppetto · What happens: be, survive · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1411 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio finds Geppetto alive inside the Shark and they plan their escape» 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	5 cause	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 survival	case
7	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 survival	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Geppetto	case
9	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 Shark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Shark	det
12	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 survival	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal cause				of Geppetto's survival within the Shark	tree rules
2	survive		Geppetto					within the Shark	nom survival «state transitive»: poss=agent within=obl

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 skills of the Terrible Shark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skills	det
2	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Shark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shark	det
5	Terrible	Terrible	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shark	compound
6	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 skills	nmod

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

Option 2

The gift of gold from the Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Fairy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift			gold				from the Fairy	nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient from=obl

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The ship's stores of food and matches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stores	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 ship	case
4	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stores	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 matches	cc
8	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stores	conj

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

Option 4

The guidance of the Pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guidance	det
2	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Pigeon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pigeon	det
5	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guidance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guide			the Pigeon					nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=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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