Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 6: a sly Fox and Cat…

did they leave pinocchio with the bill

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: leave · To what, where: pinocchio

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1393 «Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 6: a sly Fox and Cat talk Pinocchio into a plan for gold, then vanish at the inn» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pinocchio	pinocchio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bill	det
7	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	they	pinocchio				with the bill	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent pinocchio=Recipient with bill=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

yes, the innkeeper said they acted as if they were too rich to pay

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 innkeeper	det
4	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 acted	nsubj
7	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 rich	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 rich	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rich	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rich	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 rich	advmod
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 acted	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pay	mark
15	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rich	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the innkeeper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	act	past	they		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	they	rich property	tree rules
4	pay	to-infinitive	they not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the innkeeper said they pretended to be too classy to pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 innkeeper	det
4	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pretended	nsubj
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	11 classy	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 classy	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 classy	advmod
11	classy	classy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretended	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pay	mark
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 classy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the innkeeper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pretend	past	they		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	they not said here	classy property	tree rules
4	pay	to-infinitive	they not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nope, the innkeeper said they pretended they had already paid the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 innkeeper	det
4	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pretended	nsubj
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 paid	aux
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 paid	advmod
11	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bill	det
13	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the innkeeper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pretend	past	they		tree rules
3	pay	past · perfect · passive		they	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient bill=Asset

Option 4

no, they paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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