Test 11 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

Why was she waiting at the window, was she bored or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: window

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1394 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio runs from two Assassins and begs a silent maiden at a white cottage» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 waiting	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waiting	nsubj
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 bored	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bored	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bored	nsubj
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 bored	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	she			the window			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
2	is	past	she					bored 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

She was waiting for a carriage to take her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 carriage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carriage	det
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	She					for a carriage	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

She was waiting for a cart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	She					for a cart	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She was waiting for her mum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 mum	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	She					for her mum	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She was waiting for a coffin to take her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 coffin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coffin	det
6	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	She					for a coffin	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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