Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio…

so fire eater asks about his dad, what's he gonna say

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fire eater, eater · What happens: ask, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1392 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio saves Harlequin from Fire Eater's fire» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 asks	advmod
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eater	compound
3	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 dad	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	13 say	dep
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	fire eater					about eater's dad	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about dad=Topic
2	is	present	eater					say 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 · ← Mova's choice

he'll say he's fine, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					bro vocative; fine property	tree rules

Option 2

he'll lie, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 lie	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	future	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he's gonna tell the truth, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	cop
3	gonna	gonna	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sadly	punct
8	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					sadly, tell property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

geppetto never has pennies, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	geppetto	geppetto	X	Foreign=Yes	3 has	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sadly	punct
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	geppetto	pennies				sadly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient

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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