Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

yo did the puppet's nose actually keep growing or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: do, keep, grow · To what, where: nose

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 puppet	det
4	puppet	puppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nose	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 puppet	case
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 growing	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the puppet's nose		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Eventuality
2	keep	present	yo not said here		actually property	tree rules
3	grow	gerund	yo not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

nah it actually stopped growing when he got scared, no cap fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 stopped	advmod
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	advcl
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 fr	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fr	compound
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	it	actually property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	he	scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

yeah it kept growing the whole time, no cap, it was wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wild	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wild	cop
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	grow	gerund		time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	cap		wild property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah it shrank a bit, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 shrank	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shrank	nsubj
3	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	past	it	a bit					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah it kept growing, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it	no cap					tree rules
2	grow	gerund	no cap not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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