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title: What designation is conferred upon the Shark by the fish and fisherm… — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: What designation is conferred upon the Shark by the fish and fishermen? Exam question 2 of lesson 1410 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio is swallowed by the Shark» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio…

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What designation is conferred upon the Shark by the fish and fishermen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** confer · **To what, where:** designation

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1410 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio is swallowed by the Shark» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1410-pg500-part23/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:e2:1
# text = What designation is conferred upon the Shark by the fish and fishermen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Shark	Shark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confer** | present · passive | the fish and fishermen | designation |  |  |  | upon the Shark | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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"The Attila of the Sea"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:e2:o1:1
# text = "The Attila of the Sea"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Attila	Attila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"The Hunter of the Depths"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:e2:o2:1
# text = "The Hunter of the Depths"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Depths	Depth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"The Scourge of the Deep"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:e2:o3:1
# text = "The Scourge of the Deep"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scourge	Scourge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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"The Shark"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:e2:o4:1
# text = "The Shark"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Shark	Shark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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**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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