Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

wait, was the wood fancy or just trash for the stove?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, trash · To what, where: wood fancy

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fancy	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fancy	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fancy	compound
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 trash	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 trash	advmod
9	trash	trash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 stove	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stove	det
12	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trash	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the wood fancy		tree rules
3	trash	infinitive	you not said here		for the stove	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

just firewood for the stove and nothing more special at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 firewood	advmod
2	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 special	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 firewood	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 stove	conj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 special	advmod
9	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 special	obl

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

Option 2

good oak for a new door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 door	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oak	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

just firewood for the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 firewood	advmod
2	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 firewood	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

fancy carved wood meant for a royal table in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	compound
2	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wood	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 table	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 table	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 table	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	participle		fancy carved wood not said here				for a royal table in the palace	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for table=Attribute

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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