Exam question 2 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…
What object did Peppina carry when she returned home injured?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: carry, injure · To what, where: Peppina
This is exam question 2 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» 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 carry | obj |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | Peppina | Peppina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 injured | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 injured | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 injured | aux:pass |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 injured | advmod |
| 10 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carry | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | object | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | injure | past · passive | Peppina | home property | tree rules |
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
Bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
A basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 basket | det |
| 2 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bucket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bucket | det |
| 2 | bucket | bucket | 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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