Test 5 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

Did the Assassins burn the pine tree or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Assassins · What happens: burn · To what, where: pine tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Assassins	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Assassins	det
3	Assassins	assassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	nsubj
4	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burn	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the Assassins	the pine tree					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=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

Yup, they set a fire at the bottom and it went up like crazy, it was wild

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 crazy	case
15	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wild	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wild	cop
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	they	a fire	the bottom	Yup vocative	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme at bottom=Destination
2	go up	past	fire			like crazy	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	fire			wild property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they chopped the bottom, it was slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slow	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slow	cop
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	they	the bottom					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient
2	is	past	bottom					slow property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they tried to burn it but the rain came down and put it out, it was wild

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 burn	mark
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burn	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rain	det
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wild	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wild	cop
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tried	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	they			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	it		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	come down	past	the rain		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put out	infinitive	the rain not said here	rain		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	is	past	rain		wild property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, they set a fire at the bottom, it was wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wild	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wild	cop
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	they	a fire		the bottom		Yup vocative	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme at bottom=Destination
2	is	past	fire					wild property	tree rules

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