Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Did the Crow and the Owl both say he was dead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: Crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crow	det
3	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Owl	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Owl	det
6	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Crow	conj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Crow and the Owl		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he		dead 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

Nah, the Owl reckoned he was alive and the Crow was just being rude

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Owl	det
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rude	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Crow	det
11	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rude	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rude	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 rude	advmod
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 rude	cop
15	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the Owl		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Owl	alive property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Crow	rude property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the Crow reckoned he was alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crow	det
4	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the Crow						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Crow					alive property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the Owl reckoned he was alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Owl	det
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the Owl						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Owl					alive property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the Owl said he was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Owl	det
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

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

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