Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

To what did the Tunny compare the weight of his passengers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tunny · What happens: compare · To what, where: weight

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1412 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to shore, the Fox and Cat beg, milk for a penny» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 compare	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 compare	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tunny	det
5	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 compare	nsubj
6	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weight	det
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compare	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 passengers	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 passengers	nmod:poss
11	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 weight	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 compare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	past · do-support	the Tunny	the weight of Tunny's passengers					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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

a whole cargo of anchors and sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cargo	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cargo	amod
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 anchors	case
5	anchors	anchor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cargo	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sand	cc
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anchors	conj

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

Option 2

rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the seaweed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seaweed	det
2	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sea-shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shells	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 sea	punct
3	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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