Test 13 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed fro…

Bro, did Pinocchio say he'd be a better boy now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: say, be · To what, where: better boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	5 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boy	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 boy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 say	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Pinocchio				now	Bro vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	Pinocchio	a better boy					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

Yeah, he wanted to be brave, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 brave	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 brave	cop
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he					bro vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					brave property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he wanted to be obedient and never again wander off from home, bro, ever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 obedient	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 obedient	cop
7	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wander	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 wander	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	11 wander	advmod
11	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obedient	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 wander	compound:prt
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wander	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bro	punct
16	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 home	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ever	punct
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he		ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			obedient property	tree rules
3	not wander off	infinitive	he not said here	home and bro	again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wanted to be obedient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 obedient	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 obedient	cop
7	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					obedient property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted to be lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 lazy	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					lazy property	tree rules

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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