Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 6: a sly Fox and Cat…

so what did the fox say about why they help people

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, say, help · To what, where: fox, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 help	mark
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 help	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past		the fox		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	present	they		people	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary

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

they work only to enrich others, so they say, which is cringe, and Pinocchio believed them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 enrich	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 enrich	mark
5	enrich	enrich	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 work	ccomp
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enrich	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cringe	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cringe	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cringe	cop
14	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 believed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 believed	cc
17	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 believed	nsubj
18	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 work	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	work	present	they		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	enrich	to-infinitive	they not said here	others	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme other=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present	others = other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		cringe	tree rules
5	believe	past	Pinocchio	others = other	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they help the poor to make themselves rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poor	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 help	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 make	obj
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	they	the poor					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary
2	make	to-infinitive	they not said here	themselves = they				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they work only to enrich others, so they say, cringe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 enrich	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 enrich	mark
5	enrich	enrich	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 work	ccomp
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enrich	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cringe	punct
12	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	work	present	they		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	enrich	to-infinitive	they not said here	others	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme other=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present	others = other	cringe	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cringe=Topic

Option 4

they do it to enrich themselves, so they claim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 enrich	mark
5	enrich	enrich	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 do	advcl
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 enrich	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 claim	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 claim	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 claim	nsubj
10	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	they	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	enrich	to-infinitive	they not said here	themselves = they	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Destination
3	claim speech: other	present	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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