Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…

What event causes the first escape attempt to fail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: cause, fail · To what, where: first escape attempt

This is exam question 3 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	3 causes	nsubj
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	nsubj
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attempt	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 attempt	amod
6	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attempt	compound
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fail	mark
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempt	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 causes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present		the first escape attempt					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition attempt=Patient
2	fail	to-infinitive		the first escape attempt not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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

The Shark's sudden sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shark	det
2	Shark	Shark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sneeze	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Shark	case
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sneeze	amod
5	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze		the Shark						nom sneeze «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The arrival of the fishermen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		the fishermen						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The candle being blown out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blown	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blown	aux:pass
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 blown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	gerund · passive		the candle					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The fall from the tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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.

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