Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

Did Pinocchio tell her he was dead too or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dead	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 dead	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Pinocchio		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	Pinocchio					dead 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

Yup, he said I also am dead, like a total liar and he was fibbing

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liar	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 liar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 liar	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liar	amod
13	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fibbing	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fibbing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fibbing	aux
17	fibbing	fib	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 liar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	Yup vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I	dead property	tree rules
3	fib	past · progressive	he		tree rules

Option 2

Yup, he said I also am dead, like a total liar, and then he ran off laughing

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liar	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 liar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 liar	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liar	amod
13	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 ran	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 ran	compound:prt
20	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		Yup vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		dead property	tree rules
3	run off	past	he	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	he not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he said I also am alive, like a total liar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 alive	advmod
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liar	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 liar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 liar	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liar	amod
13	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yup, he said I also am dead, like a total liar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liar	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 liar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 liar	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liar	amod
13	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

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

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