Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

What about the girl, was her hair normal or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hair · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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=Rel	9 normal	obl
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 girl	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 normal	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 normal	nsubj
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 normal	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 normal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl's hair					normal 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

Nah, it was golden, like a totally yellow sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 golden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 golden	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 golden	cop
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sun	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 sun	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sun	det
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 yellow	advmod
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sun	amod
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 golden	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was azure, like a totally blue sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 azure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 azure	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 azure	cop
5	azure	azure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sky	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 sky	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sky	det
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 blue	advmod
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sky	amod
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 azure	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	azure and a blue sky					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it was azure, like a totally blue sky on a summer day

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 azure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 azure	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 azure	cop
5	azure	azure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sky	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 sky	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sky	det
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 blue	advmod
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sky	amod
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 azure	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	compound
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	azure and a blue sky					tree rules

Option 4

Yup, it was brown, like a totally normal wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brown	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brown	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	cop
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 wood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 normal	advmod
10	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Yup					like a normal wood; brown property	tree rules

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