Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

What did Pinocchio call the Fox and the Cat when he refused their plea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: call, refuse · To what, where: Fox, plea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	4 call	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Cat	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	conj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 refused	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 plea	nmod:poss
14	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refused	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Pinocchio	the Fox and the Cat					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme fox=Result
2	refuse	past	Pinocchio	Fox's plea					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plea=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 · ✓ the right answer

false friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

bad neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 neighbours	amod
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

dishonest and cruel thieves who lie for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thieves	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cruel	cc
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dishonest	conj
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lie	nsubj
6	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thieves	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	dishonest thieves					for money	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the wicked false friends of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friends	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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