Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette bec…

Which action did Pinocchio take with the fifty pennies he had saved?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: action, Pinocchio · What happens: take, save

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1413 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette becomes a real boy» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 pennies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pennies	det
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pennies	nummod
9	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saved	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saved	aux
12	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 take	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	which action					with the fifty pennies	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	save	past · perfect	Pinocchio						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

He gave them to the Snail for the Fairy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Snail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Snail	det
6	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Fairy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Snail	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He		them = they			to the Snail for the Fairy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to snail=Recipient

Option 2

He hid them under the bed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He	them = they		the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under bed=Location

Option 3

He spent them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	He	them = they					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 4

He gave them to the Fox for food.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Fox	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He		them = they			to the Fox for food	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to fox=Recipient

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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