Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Who was the chatterbox doctor, the Cricket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: chatterbox doctor

This is test 7 · ★ 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	5 doctor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doctor	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
4	chatterbox	chatterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doctor	compound
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Cricket	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cricket	det
8	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doctor	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doctor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the chatterbox doctor and the Cricket					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

Nah, the Crow was the chatterbox one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crow	det
4	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	chatterbox	chatterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	compound
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Crow	the chatterbox one					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it was the Crow, the one who yapped about the medicine and the Fairy all day long

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 Crow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Crow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Crow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Crow	det
6	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Crow	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 yapped	nsubj
11	yapped	yap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 medicine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 medicine	det
14	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yapped	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 day	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
17	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Crow	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Crow and all Fairy day					tree rules
2	yap	past	the one					about the medicine	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about medicine=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the Talking Cricket, he kept going on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 Cricket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cricket	det
4	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cricket	compound
5	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cricket	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	the Talking Cricket					tree rules
2	go on	gerund	the Talking Cricket not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the Talking Cricket, the chatterbox one, he never stopped going on and on

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cricket	det
4	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cricket	compound
5	Cricket	Cricket	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chatterbox	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chatterbox	det
8	chatterbox	chatterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Cricket	appos
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 chatterbox	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stopped	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stopped	advmod
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stopped	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 going	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 on	cc
17	on	on	ADV	_	13 stopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	the Talking Cricket						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go on	gerund	the Talking Cricket not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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