Test 5 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…
Wait, was the Poodle really driving a coach?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Poodle · What happens: wait, drive · To what, where: coach
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 driving | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 driving | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Poodle | det |
| 5 | Poodle | Poodle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 driving | advmod |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coach | det |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drive | past · progressive | the Poodle | a coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=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
Nah, a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 horse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a wooden one, pulled by horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a wooden one not said here | by horses | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a glass one, pulled by mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | compound |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mice | case |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a glass one not said here | by mice | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, a glass one, pulled by a hundred pairs of white mice all in harness
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | compound |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 pairs | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pairs | nummod |
| 11 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pulled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mice | case |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mice | amod |
| 14 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pairs | nmod |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 harness | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 harness | case |
| 17 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a glass one not said here | harness | by hundred pairs of white mice | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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