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title: Which character did the Moon identify as the object of Pulcinella's… — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character did the Moon identify as the object of Pulcinella's secret affection? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 1 · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/905-pg27200-part116/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e1:1
# text = Which character did the Moon identify as the object of Pulcinella's secret affection?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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the young Lelio of the theatre company

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e1:o1:1
# text = the young Lelio of the theatre company
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lelio	Lelio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pierrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e1:o2:1
# text = Pierrot
1	Pierrot	pierrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Columbine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e1:o3:1
# text = Columbine
1	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Lelio

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e1:o4:1
# text = Lelio
1	Lelio	Lelio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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