Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…
is it true they swore to be besties forever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, they · What happens: be, swear · To what, where: besties
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1388 «Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, two old men fight, a puppet is named» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swore | nsubj |
| 5 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 besties | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 besties | cop |
| 8 | besties | besty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swore | xcomp |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 swore | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | they | forever property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | they not said here | besties | 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
no, they never spoke again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 spoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past | they | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
yes, besties for the whole year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 besties | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | besties | besty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 besties | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
no, they fought
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 fought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | they | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yes, friends for the rest of their lives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 friends | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lives | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rest | 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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