Exam question 1 · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Which character did the Moon identify as the object of Pulcinella's secret affection?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, Moon · What happens: do, identify

This is exam question 1 of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 identify	nsubj
6	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 object	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identify	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 affection	case
11	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 affection	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Pulcinella	case
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 affection	amod
14	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 object	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which character						tree rules
2	identify	present	the Moon					as the object of Pulcinella's secret affection	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as object=Attribute

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 young Lelio of the theatre company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lelio	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lelio	amod
3	Lelio	Lelio	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 company	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 company	det
6	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 company	compound
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Lelio	nmod

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

Option 2

Pierrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pierrot	pierrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Columbine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Lelio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lelio	Lelio	PROPN	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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