Exam question 4 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…

Which animal's braying caused Peppina to turn her head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, Peppina · What happens: bray, cause, turn · To what, where: Peppina, head

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 animal	case
4	braying	bray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 animal	acl
5	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 caused	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bray	gerund	which animal not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	past	which animal	Peppina	tree rules
3	turn	to-infinitive	Peppina not said here	animal's head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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

The donkey braying near the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	braying	bray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 donkey	acl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 braying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bray	gerund	the donkey not said here			the well			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The grey donkey by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 donkey	amod
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 donkey	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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