Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Who got the Falcon to cut him down, the Fairy or the Crow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Falcon · What happens: get, cut down · To what, where: Falcon

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Falcon	det
4	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Fairy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fairy	det
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 Crow	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Crow	det
14	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Fairy	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the Falcon					tree rules
2	cut down	to-infinitive	the Falcon not said here	Falcon				the Fairy or the Crow obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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

The Crow, he sent the Falcon to cut him down from the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crow	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Falcon	det
7	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 oak	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 oak	det
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Crow	the Crow					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme
2	cut down	to-infinitive	Crow not said here	Falcon		the oak			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset he=Product from oak=Material

Option 2

The Crow, he sent the Falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crow	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Falcon	det
7	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Crow	the Crow					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Fairy, she sent the Falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fairy	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Falcon	det
7	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Fairy	the Fairy					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme

Option 4

The Owl, she sent the Mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Owl	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
7	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Owl	the Mouse					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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