Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

What was the sum Farmer John required in exchange for a full glass of milk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sum · What happens: be, require · To what, where: exchange

This is exam question 3 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	7 required	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sum	det
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	nsubj
5	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 John	compound
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sum	appos
7	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 exchange	case
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 glass	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 glass	det
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glass	amod
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 milk	case
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glass	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 required	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							tree rules
2	require	past	the sum			exchange		for a full glass of milk	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme

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 single nickel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a single penny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

one copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 copper	nummod
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a silver florin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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