Test 13 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

fr, did Pinocchio mean to kill it or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: mean, kill · To what, where: fr

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 kill	mark
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 kill	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	fr						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	fr not said here	fr					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah he didn't think he'd hit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 think	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	would	he	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

yeah he meant to do it and felt proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 meant	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 felt	cc
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
9	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	feel	past	he not said here		proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

nah he didn't think he'd hit it but felt terrible afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 think	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	conj
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	11 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	would	he	it		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	feel	past	he not said here		afterwards, terrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

nah he just wanted to scare it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 scare	mark
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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