Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed fro…

Bro, why'd the Jailer let Pinocchio out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jailer · What happens: let out · To what, where: Pinocchio

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1398 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed from prison, a Serpent blocks the road, caught by a Farmer» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 let	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Jailer	det
6	Jailer	Jailer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	the Jailer	Pinocchio				Bro vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinocchio=Theme

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

'Cause he's nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 nice	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

'Cause he said he was a thief too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thief	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thief	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thief	det
8	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 thief	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cause						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Cause	a thief					tree rules

Option 3

'Cause he paid the guard some coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
2	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guard	det
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 coins	det
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Cause	the guard					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient coin=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

'Cause the guard felt sorry for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 guard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guard	det
4	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	obl
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past						cause the guard; for him = he; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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