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

Did Pinocchio cry when the doctors were there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio, doctors · What happens: cry, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nsubj
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 there	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctors	det
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cry	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Pinocchio						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the doctors					there 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was blubbing, half melted in tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 blubbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blubbing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blubbing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blubbing	aux
5	blubbing	blubb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 melted	punct
7	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 melted	advmod
8	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 blubbing	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 tears	case
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blubb	past · progressive	he						tree rules
2	melt	participle				tears		half property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was sobbing, all wet with tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sobbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sobbing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sobbing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sobbing	aux
5	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sobbing	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wet	det
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sobbing	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 tears	case
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sobbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past · progressive	he					with tears; wet property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he was shouting, very angry and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shouting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shouting	aux
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 angry	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 angry	advmod
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shouting	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loud	cc
10	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 angry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · progressive	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he was calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					calm property	tree rules

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