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

Wait, what's Pinocchio's whole deal with the Cat and Fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
5	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Pinocchio	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Cat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Fox	cc
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Cat	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		Pinocchio's whole deal				with the Cat and Fox	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

They're like his best friends who always help him, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friends	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 friends	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 help	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 help	advmod
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fam	punct
12	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friends	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					like his best friends and fam	tree rules
2	help	present	his best friends and fam		him = he			always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

They're his bros, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bros	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bros	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bros	nmod:poss
4	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bros	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	his bros and fam					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They're like shady friends who keep ditching him, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 friends	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	acl:relcl
8	ditching	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ditching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friends	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		like shady friends and fam	tree rules
2	keep	present	shady friends and fam			tree rules
3	ditch	gerund	shady friends and fam not said here	him = he		tree rules

Option 4

They're shady, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shady	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shady	cop
3	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fam	punct
5	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					shady property	tree rules

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