Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

Did he want to drink the medicine straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: want, drink · To what, where: medicine

This is test 9 · ★ 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 want	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drink	mark
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 medicine	det
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 drink	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the medicine				away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient

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

Yeah, he gulped it straight down, but then he pulled a face and begged for more time

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gulped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gulped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gulped	nsubj
4	gulped	gulp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gulped	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 gulped	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 pulled	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 pulled	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gulped	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
16	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pulled	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gulp	past	he	it		down property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	pull	past	he	a face	then		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	beg speech: request	participle	he not said here		time		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he said maybe later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 later	advmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 said	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	4 said	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say on speech: assert	past	he					late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he pulled a face and said no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 face	det
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	he	a face					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, he grinned and said yes please

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grinned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grinned	nsubj
4	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grinned	conj
7	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grinned	discourse
8	please	please	INTJ	_	4 grinned	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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