Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Did the Fairy say the medicine was sweet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy, medicine · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fairy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 medicine	det
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweet	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sweet	cop
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Fairy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the medicine					sweet 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

Yeah, she said it was sweet and nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sweet	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sweet	cop
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nice	cc
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	sweet property	tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she said it was bitter, but good for you and would make him well again soon

The tree, 17 words

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bitter	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bitter	cop
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 good	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 make	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 make	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it			bitter property	tree rules
3	make	would	she not said here	him = he	again	soon, well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 3

Nah, she said it was sour, but tasty

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sour	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sour	cop
7	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tasty	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tasty	cc
10	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she said it was bitter, but good for you

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bitter	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bitter	cop
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 good	obl

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

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