Exam question 1 · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Which of the following correctly identifies the object with which Ciccu compelled the princess to return the purse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: follow, identify, compel, return · To what, where: object, princess, purse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	csubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 following	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 compelled	obl
11	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 compelled	nsubj
12	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 object	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 compelled	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 compelled	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 purse	det
18	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			correctly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the object		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
3	compel	past	Ciccu	the princess	with the object	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
4	return	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here	the purse		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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 · ← Mova's choice

A stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A heavy rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A thick stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	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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