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

did the innkeeper believe the fox and cat

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, believe · To what, where: innkeeper, fox

This is test 6 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 innkeeper	det
3	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cat	cc
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fox	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the innkeeper					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Eventuality
2	believe	present		the fox and cat					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus

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

he laughed and said they were rich

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	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rich	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rich	cop
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	they	rich property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he thought they were honest people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 people	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	cop
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	honest people					tree rules

Option 3

no he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 did	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he winked like he knew they were up to something

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	2 winked	nsubj
2	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 winked	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 up	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 up	cop
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 knew	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 something	case
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wink	past	he						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know up	past	he					to something	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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