Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 9: Pinocchio…

Why was Pinocchio being such a snitch about the gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: be · To what, where: snitch

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 snitch	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 snitch	cop
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 snitch	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snitch	det
7	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 gold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snitch	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund	Pinocchio	such snitch				about the gold	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

Cause he wanted the gold, bro, and he hid it so well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gold	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hid	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hid	nsubj
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hid	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cause	the gold and bro					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme
2	hide	past	Cause	bro				well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

He was just hungry, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bro vocative; hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Cause he was bored, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bro	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he kept lying, bro, and every lie stretched his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	nsubj
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	Cause		tree rules
2	lie	gerund	Cause not said here	bro	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bro=Theme
3	stretch	past	every lie	lie's nose	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

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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