Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed fro…

Dude, did the Serpent really just die laughing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Serpent · What happens: die, laugh

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 die	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 die	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Serpent	det
5	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 die	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 die	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 die	advmod
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 die	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · do-support	the Serpent					Dude vocative	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	the Serpent not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yep, it choked on a grape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 choked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 choked	nsubj
4	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 grape	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grape	det
7	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past	it			a grape			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, it just slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 slept	advmod
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	it						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, it ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, it burst an artery laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 burst	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laughing	det
6	artery	artery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughing	compound
7	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	it	a artery laughing					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location laughing=Theme

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