Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

What was the pool like, was it clean water or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clean water, pool · What happens: be · To what, where: pool, clean water

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pool	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pool	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 pool	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pool	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 water	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 water	nsubj
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 water	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	clean water	the pool					tree rules
2	is a	past	the pool	clean water					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, it was blue and fresh, nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blue	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blue	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	cop
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fresh	cc
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nice	punct
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Yup	blue property	tree rules
2	be		Yup not said here		tree rules
3	be		Yup not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it was green and smelly, gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 green	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smelly	cc
7	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
9	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					green property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was muddy coffee colour, gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 colour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 colour	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 colour	cop
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	compound
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
9	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	muddy coffee colour and gross					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was muddy coffee colour and full of weeds, gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 colour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 colour	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 colour	cop
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	compound
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 full	cc
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 weeds	case
11	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gross	punct
13	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	muddy coffee colour and gross					tree rules
2	be							of weeds	tree rules

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