Test 3 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio…

why did Pinocchio not take the chicken bribe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: not take · To what, where: chicken bribe

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1399 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio outwits the Weasels, then grieves at the Fairy's grave and meets a Pigeon» 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	5 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bribe	det
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bribe	compound
8	bribe	bribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	Pinocchio	the chicken bribe					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=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 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted a bigger deal, ngl

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ngl	punct
7	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a bigger deal and ngl					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme

Option 2

He's a good boy and didn't want to betray the Farmer, no cap

The tree, 15 words

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	5 boy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 want	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 want	advmod
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 boy	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 betray	mark
11	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Farmer	det
13	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 betray	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a good boy and no cap	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	betray not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the Farmer	tree rules

Option 3

Too much bread, ugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bread	punct
5	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 bread	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's not for sale, no cap

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	5 sale	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sale	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sale	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 sale	case
5	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sale	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	He					for sale	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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