Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

What did the Cricket say the Goat had declared about Pinocchio?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cricket, Goat · What happens: say, declare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cricket	det
4	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Goat	det
7	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 declared	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 declared	aux
9	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 say	ccomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 Pinocchio	case
11	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Cricket						tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past · perfect	the Goat					about Pinocchio	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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

that she would never see him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would	she	him = he			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

that he would become a real boy soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 become	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	he	a real boy				soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

that he was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		he					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

that he should go home now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	should	he				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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