Test 14 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 9: Pinocchio…
Did Pinocchio tell the truth about the gold at the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: tell · To what, where: truth, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1396 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 9: Pinocchio drinks the medicine, tells three lies, and meets the Cat again» 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 tell | aux |
| 2 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 truth | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Pinocchio | the truth | at the end | about the gold | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about gold=Topic |
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
Yeah, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he told it straight at the end, so yes, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 told | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | 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 told | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 end | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bro | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bro | advmod |
| 12 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 14 bro | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yes | punct |
| 14 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | he | it | at the end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he kept lying till it got stuck, so no, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | ccomp |
| 9 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bro | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bro | advmod |
| 12 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 bro | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 no | punct |
| 14 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | it | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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