Test 8 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

no cap, what job did Pinocchio say was the best?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: job, cap · What happens: say, be · To what, where: cap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 best	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
7	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 best	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 best	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	job	no cap					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is	past	no cap					good property	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 · ✓ the right answer

eating, drinking, sleeping, playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 playing	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drinking	punct
3	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 eating	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sleeping	punct
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 eating	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	eat	gerund		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	gerund		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	gerund		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund	eating	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

reading, writing, drawing, singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 writing	punct
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reading	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drawing	punct
5	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 reading	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 singing	punct
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drawing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

eating, drinking, sleeping, playing and running all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drinking	punct
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 eating	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sleeping	punct
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 eating	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 eating	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 running	cc
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 eating	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	when	roles by
1	eat	gerund		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	gerund		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	gerund		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	gerund	day	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

fishing, cooking, sailing, hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cooking	punct
3	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fishing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sailing	punct
5	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fishing	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hunting	punct
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fishing	conj

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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