Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Bro, did the Assassins actually snap their knives on him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Assassins · What happens: snap · To what, where: knives

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1395 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assassins hang him, and the Fairy saves him» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snap	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snap	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Assassins	det
5	Assassins	assassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 snap	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 snap	advmod
7	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knives	nmod:poss
9	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 snap	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snap	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 snap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past · do-support	the Assassins	Assassins's knives				on him = he; Bro vocative; actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they snapped right off in his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snapped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snapped	nsubj
4	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	4 snapped	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	they			his face		off property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location

Option 2

Nah, the knives went off into the air and broke into a load of little bits somewhere far away

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knives	det
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 broke	cc
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 load	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 load	det
14	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bits	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bits	amod
17	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 load	nmod
18	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 away	advmod
20	away	away	ADV	_	11 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the knives			the air			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	break	past	the knives not said here					into a load of little bits result; away property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into load=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the knives went bang into a thousand bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knives	det
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 bits	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bits	nummod
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the knives	bang		thousand bits			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bang=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the knives went bang and smashed into a thousand bits all over the ground

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knives	det
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 smashed	cc
8	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 bits	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bits	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bits	nummod
12	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smashed	obl
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 ground	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the knives	bang		the ground			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bang=Theme
2	smash	past	the knives not said here					into a thousand bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result

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